Quincie Hamby Quotes & Sayings

People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me. — Pam Houston

You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy. — Anthony Bourdain

Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego — Albert Einstein

Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises. — Beverly Cleary

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. — Aldous Huxley

As a child, l was fascinated by gemstones in the way that small children are fascinated by dinosaurs or trains. Stones seem very physical and look like sweets. You can look at them microscopically and imagine things about them. — Tobias Hill

I was always impressed by how much my dad went out in the yard and played with me and my siblings when we were kids. I'm sure he was tired coming back from work, since he traveled a lot. But he always took time out of his day to go out in the yard. — Andrew Luck

Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I'm always angsty when I'm working my way through a first draft. — Marie Lu

That we have some history together that hasn't happened yet. — Jennifer Egan

Oh, if Plato could see me now ! Aristotle, traveler of time! — James Dashner

Bright faculties are a source of wisdom, not length of years. — Publilius Syrus

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. — Dorothy Parker

Smoking eats.. YOU. — Vikrmn

The suffering he had endured lent him clarity, discipline, and faith in hard times - perhaps especially in hard times. — Joshua Wolf Shenk

Most horrid sound in the world, that of the once-was: alive in the past, perishing in the present, a corpse made of dust in the future. — Philip K. Dick