Purdy Quotes & Sayings

We finally got our drinks and, clasping the cold glasses, we stared into each other's eyes, the night ahead so full of possibilities — Alexia Purdy

Not all princes he had read about in books of legends are beautiful and noble and carry their heads high. — James Purdy

When these with violence were put to death,
We prayed to God four our Elizabeth. — Emily Purdy

And yet Curt's a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that's all. — James Purdy

I play defense and I'm a unique defender because I'm tall and slim but I also have great speed. — Steve Purdy

Then the Unseelie Court started raging war against the Seelie Courts of Faeries, especially — Alexia Purdy

My idea of heaven is to be hunting with you in some beautiful park with mountains like here at home but where we won't need guns or prey but we will just walk together arm in arm in this good world and be by ourselves always together forever and a day. — James Purdy

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past. — James Purdy

That's why people loved stories so, I realized in that instant, because they found in them what was missing from their own lives, the things they knew, no matter how much or how hard they might hope and dream and scheme, they would never have. — Brandy Purdy

Don't shoot me, Sidney, I love you.
He had shot him right through the words that still haunted him today, the most perfect words ever said to him. — James Purdy

Never tease anything that wants to eat you. Reign of Blood — Alexia Purdy

Sorry, Bramblestar!" Purdy gasped. "I'm too old and stiff for this. I can't get up or down, so I'd better live here, okay? — Erin Hunter

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense. — Al Purdy

Obviously, after the match your fans come up to you and really look but to you but you don't get too much recognition around town for playing for FC Dallas. — Steve Purdy

Who made the 999 call?"
"Dunno," said Purdy. "Mobile, probably."
It's officers like Purdy that give the Metropolitan Police its sterling reputation for customer service that makes us the envy of the civilised world. — Ben Aaronovitch

I really wanted to go to architecture school but the demands of playing D-1 Collegiate soccer just take over so I tried to empathize architecture as much as I could. — Steve Purdy

I would say that my strength is my speed and my ability to win head balls. — Steve Purdy

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world. — Al Purdy

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters? — Alexia Purdy

Let's shift from moralizing about and lamenting divorce to understanding that a successful marriage, no matter the length, is one that contributes to knowing ourselves better and evolving into more loving and compassionate people. — Deb Purdy

Alchohol doesn't make you fat ... it make you Lean ... on tables, chairs & random people!!! ... — Ashley Purdy

The biggest reward is seeing via social media people sending me pictures back with excitement of what they bought from my fashion line. I ReTweet most everyone i see who tweets a photo. — Ashley Purdy

I also think that Germany helped me with my aggressiveness. — Steve Purdy

It was paper, as he had once joked to Amos, that he was really queer for. — James Purdy

Maybe that's why I was so afraid of Sasha's love. With him comes the remembering part that I was so good at forgetting.
~Piper - 'Breathe Me — Alexia Purdy

In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alchemist. A good friend, Claude Purdy, who is a stage director, suggested I turn the poems into a play. — August Wilson

Some people confess in the flesh, others on paper. — James Purdy

'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival. — Al Purdy

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television. — James Purdy

My main intention was to not only create collections that defined myself and style, but to also create things that my fans identify with me and feel a belonging to. — Ashley Purdy

Most books don't even come into the world with the noise of the still-born. — James Purdy

One fine day you've got to give your body to somebody, or turn into a fully-fledged zombie. — James Purdy

I can describe my books as I seem them as American, imaginative, symbolic. My literary ancestors are two other Calvinists, Hawthorne, and Melville. — James Purdy

Sasha was the epitome of the "don't look because you'll be caught like a deer in headlights" type of guy. — Alexia Purdy

He always could steal my breath away, and tonight, he was still doing what he did best.- — Alexia Purdy

I've never been in fashion. Not at all. — James Purdy

A cup at Starbucks isn't really that expensive when you consider what Victoria's Secret charges per cup.. — Ashley Purdy

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television. — James Purdy

I think someone's biggest competition is themselves. I stand out as a 'fashion' designer and not to be confused with, (people who call themselves 'clothing' designers, who just print designs or logos on pre-existing t-shirts), because what I have created is custom fashions that are a personal extension of myself and my personality. It's pretty unique since there is only one of me. — Ashley Purdy

Actually, television tells you to take dope. It tells you to destroy the human race really, by first having more consumers and then consuming more poison and then making the whole planet uninhabitable. — James Purdy

Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke. — Al Purdy

While I Wait ... Fate, So sensitive to every move we sway. Love, So fragile to every word we say. Time, A fire that consumes the day. And hate, Swallows us in for pay. Life, Can you feel me washing away? And Death, So certain that you will stay. Hope, So compressed in the faraway. But Me, I guess I'll be okay. — Alexia Purdy

I don't think of people as queer or straight," the Doc said. "Not when you're as old as I. And I don't think God does either."
"I didn't know you believed in God, Doc," Vance said. — James Purdy

Why should you expect everything to work out successful? You're old enough to know better. — James Purdy

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf — Cecil Purdy

Overall the theme is about never giving in ... not letting anyone tell you what to do or take anything away from you. Always being yourself, whatever that may be. The content obviously takes a darker and romantic approach to relationships about love and loss, as well as overcoming adversity in everyday life. Generally, just being tough and standing up for what you believe. — Ashley Purdy

You smell good. It's ... it's nice to breathe you in again. I missed it, she said. — Alexia Purdy

A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior. — Jedediah Purdy

If you cross a pickle with a female deer ... You get a dill-doe! — Ashley Purdy

Being called weird
is like being called
Limited Edition.
Meaning youre
something people
dont see that often. — Ashley Purdy

He was a different kind of poison. The slow, scorching, addictive kind. — Alexia Purdy

As always, I wonder if I'll get through the winter. Then when winter is over, I wonder about the summer. But that's because the system decided which author shall be commercially successful. As I said, the most vicious of them all is The New York Times, because it pretends to be literary and impartial, and it's really this opinionated, myopic, stupid giant of incompetence. — James Purdy

What's in your past doesn't matter. Neither does what you plan to do at some future time. What matters is what you do with this moment. You have the power to change your life for the better starting right this minute. — Deb Purdy

One chapter of your life is over. The rest of your story is up to you. Get started! — Deb Purdy

Grief is one illness that defies all remedies; it must ever run its course. — Brandy Purdy

If you get lonesome enough, Carrie knew, you'll even call the police. — James Purdy

Carla had the American woman's fixed idea that love can cure, love can heal, love can bind a flowing wound. — James Purdy

Nobody can cause another man evil unless the second party involved allows him to. — James Purdy

When you go into projects, you can't look at it as limited; you have to dive into it wholeheartedly to be true to the writer's vision. — Jolene Purdy

But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund. — James Purdy

All you need do, Bernie,"she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, "is present the truth as fiction. — James Purdy

I love the city and the people of Munich. I have many great friends there. — Steve Purdy

In the end we're nothing more substantial,
it would seem,
than so much tiny star-stuff and a dream;
coordinates of will so existential
that, in the final analysis,
there is no thinker, just the thought.
We create ourselves to learn we can't exist.
It could be said we think therefore we're not.
We're just a place that atoms hurdle through,
a vortex with a cosmic attitude.


fr. "The Lady Cavendish's Atoms — Gilbert Wesley Purdy

He's America in action - opposed to quality. — James Purdy

'Donnie Darko' was my first audition ever! It opened my eyes to the possibilities within camera work. — Jolene Purdy

New York has collapsed. — James Purdy

Just like children, he and the greatwoman Grainger longed, and especially demanded even, that something should happen, or again Parkhearst would cry, "A reward, I must have a reward. A reward for life just as I have lived it. — James Purdy

The last human of importance the American people have been able to keep in the working end of their brain is your own Chicago triggerman, Dillinger. After him they kind of lost hold on keeping who's who straight. So don't be surprised if they don't remember who Cabot Wright is, or if they do. — James Purdy

There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that you can consume more, see more, and get more. — James Purdy

I close my eyes. I can still see everything I want to forget stamped behind my lids, but it sticks to my brain like forgotten lollipops embedded into the couch. — Alexia Purdy

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love. — James Purdy

I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted. — Cecil Purdy

Piper, I want another chance. I'll make it right, I swear. You'll never be sorry if you give me another chance to love you the way you deserve. I won't be the fool this time. I'll be there, no matter what the cost. I swear it. — Alexia Purdy

We all have disabilities. Just some are more visible than others. We all have challenges, we all have obstacles — Amy Purdy

The New York Times Review of Books is toilet paper. Used. — James Purdy

I'm just trying to get as good as I can get, I am still young but there is always room to learn so I spend a lot of time watching players in other leagues to get better. — Steve Purdy

IT IS SAID that time is unrelated to everything else. It goes on and on, unnoticing of our actions, our falls, our triumphs. Who's to care then, if time does not remember us? It flies by, fleeting, inattentive and disinterested in any occupants of this earth. What are we, then, if time thinks so little of everyone it passes? Time is truly apathetic to the many to whom a little empathy would mean so much.
~April~
Disarming Reign of Blood — Alexia Purdy

The to-dos were sordid rather than exciting, perhaps because nearly everybody was approaching middle age. — James Purdy

One morning while drinking coffee with Amos, Daniel Haws looked up suddenly, as if feeling the boy's eyes on him, and said:
"Tryin' to burn holes starin' like that?"
"Guess I was just resting my eyes on you so as not to look at your wallpaper," Amos gave a sour apology.
Daniel closed the book he was reading, a volume of Rhodes's history of the United States, and took a careful look at the kitchen wallpaper.
"Yes," he admitted, "that wallpaper is goddam ancient. — James Purdy

She made no point of concealing the truth, for the truth was all she could bear now. — James Purdy

Then giving another taste to his drink, leaving it more than half full, he would make a rather stately progress to the booth, partly closing the door. He would take down the receiver and hesitantly begin speaking into the mouthpiece. Actually Mr. Sendel was talking only to himself. He would talk for several minutes into the silent phone, explaining how worried he was and how despairing it was at his time of life when all or almost all those dear to one have departed. — James Purdy

You gotta believe you can accomplish anything, and those who believe that they can accomplish anything, most likely will. — Ashley Purdy

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts. — Amy Purdy

I'm pretty open to all music. Its pretty funny because I've spent time in Germany and now I'm in Dallas where Country is a big thing. I used to hate it but now I can actually go through a song. — Steve Purdy

The worse the author, the more he is known. — James Purdy

From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up rock n' roll characters in a band who each had their own style and personalities. I think by accident I was already becoming a fashion designer. — Ashley Purdy

If the book's bad enough, they'll publish it, and if it's bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it'll sell. — James Purdy

I have wrote my name in hell, Brian McFee had said as he was dying on the sawdust of the floor in the Bent Ridge Tavern. — James Purdy

Maureen had been born with the face of a gargoyle on the body of a sylph. — James Purdy

So, yes, I should have just surrendered, cinched the entitled scion her little pouch of entitlements, put in my calls to the name shufflers, done my duty. I thought about that moment later on. Maybe I got extratuned to the concept of bitchhood once I became Purdy's, though I must confess I've always found such usage of the term for female dogs distasteful. My mother was a second-wave feminist. I wasn't comfortable saying "cunt" until I was twenty-three, at which point, admittedly, I couldn't hold back for a time. — Sam Lipsyte

Seeing the sky darken & the fields
turn brown & the lake lead-grey
as some enormous scrap of sheet metal
& wind grabs the world around the equator
I am most thankful then for knowing about
the little gold hairs on your belly — Al Purdy

I've always been altering clothing my entire life. But I would have to say my first real amateur endeavor would have to be drawing, designing and then literally cutting and sewing every piece of costume for my first band I formed in Hollywood. — Ashley Purdy

There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence. — James Purdy

Mexican marijuana, which he called the schoolboy's consolation. — James Purdy

Why risk himself for her? — Alexia Purdy

What is up with this Ashley Purdy day tomorrow,I see? Do I need to dress up as myself?! — Ashley Purdy

I started writing when I was about thirteen. — Al Purdy

I suppose." Mousefur sniffed. "No doubt it'll be up to me to teach them manners. Kits nowadays don't know how to show any respect."
Jayfeather's whiskers twitched with amusement.
"Don't you believe it," Purdy whispered. "She was teaching Lilykit and Seedkit how to reach under the wall of the warriors' den and catch stray tails yesterday. — Erin Hunter

If you want to make something happen in your life or career, well then you make and find the time. Simple as that. — Ashley Purdy

It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification. — Jedediah Purdy