Raphaella Smits Quotes & Sayings

She can break your fall Or let you fall and break And every time you jump You just know she's going to catch you — Henry Rollins

By dismissing what could work, we dismiss our own growth. We dismiss what's possible. — Joe Vitale

I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence. — Gerald Vizenor

I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Perhaps they promised that there would always be women in the world who would spend their brightest, freshest, rarest hours to nurse and protect that superiority he cherished in his heart. — F Scott Fitzgerald

People need no advice, they want wisdom-based entertainment. — Toba Beta

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife. — Martin Short

Women in mystery fiction were largely confined to little old lady snoops - amateur sleuths - who are nurses, teachers, whatever. — Marcia Muller

I asked why this had impressed him so much, and he said, You see, those stubborn, long-obscured images are like the layers of our own existence; we are the painters covering them over and over again, but that which appears lost is merely hidden. The old images bide their time and then rise to the surface to join with the new ones. Don't you see? Pentimento, Verland, transforms the perception of loss into the promise of reconfiguration. — B.E. Scully

I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers. — Clarice Lispector

Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection. — Anderson Silva

He demands an explanation. — Graham Swift

If you really believe that you deserve better, work on you, not them. — Bobby Williams

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months. — Taylor Swift

Every improv must be song specific. It has to grow organically out of the particular elements involved or it's just glib self-expression. I hate when I feel like I'm the lead guitarist in a rock band. We all gotta be going somewhere strong together, you know? — David First