Queen Elizabeth Ii Famous Quotes & Sayings

I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one. — Douglas Coupland

I've come alive since I met you. — E.L. James

How sick I am of thinking about money all the time. It's like and hideous disease destroying energy...contentment...joy...
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It's depressing how money is always at the beginning and end of things. — Victoria Clayton

Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on. — Dale Carnegie

That was national news. Everyone all over the country heard my father's hatred toward us. I can't believe he brought the kids into this," Kane said. "Honey, I don't care about that. I'm worried about you. He didn't look like he was too much on his deathbed. That was an awful nice house they were standing in front of," Avery said, his tone turning harder. "I send them money every month," Kane confessed. "I know, and he sure cashes those checks. He didn't mention that, did he?" Avery asked. — Kindle Alexander

She didn't know what to do with the severed leg. She had cut it off, but she didn't want to touch it or even look at it. — Larry McMurtry

But it is the same thing we are all seeing,
Our world. Go after it,
Go get it boy, says the man holding the stick.
Eat, says the hunger, and we plunge blindly in again,
Into the chamber behind the thought — John Ashbery

I love design, so it's important for me to have a creative outlet. — Mark Parker

Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is not mysticism, but Gnosticism. Biblical mysticism is the attempt to exit 'this world' to an alternative reality that pervades the old order. Its goal is to jettison the mind-set that says 'greed is good,' selfishness is normal,' and 'killing is necessary.' Mysticism in biblical terms is not escapism, as so many have caricatured it, but a fight for ethics and social change. — Walter Wink

Writer's block doesn't really come from lack of ideas, I believe; it comes more from fear. Fear of the blank document, fear of failure...fear that what you write will be awful!
So the only way past it is to make myself get on with it. Sit in front of my computer and type, something, anything, even if it is simply writing down my feelings at that moment, or describing the weather. I start with something simple, and before I know it the words will flow again. — Barbara Copperthwaite

I try not to live in the past ... but ... sometimes the past lives in me — Jamie Ford