Realing Quotes & Sayings

The difference between men who succeed or fail is their ability to handle pressure. — Edwin Louis Cole

A time of historic change is no time for recklessness. — George H. W. Bush

Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity. — Barry Hughart

Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul. — Omar Khayyam

You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it. Oh, Oh, dog Biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn't get snappy. — Dutch Schultz

You took thoughts, choosing them out of your store, and then, not dwelling on them, you let them slip through the fingers of your mind, never clutching at them, never dwelling on them, no concentration ... just letting them drift gently past. — Agatha Christie

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing. — Robert Carlyle

See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea. — Guy Finley

We seem to need the motivation of pain or discomfort to drive us from our current manner of thinking and being to a higher level of reality. — Rand Olson

I think, living in America, we're so bombarded with God all the time that in certain ways I'm making statements against that bombardment, you know? I think it's crazy. I mean, I don't believe in God. I don't believe in anything. But I still think about it. And I still write about it. — James Frey

Stop pretending. You wanted to be real right? This hurts, this is what it feels like, this is the growing up, the stoping pretending, the false past tap-dancing. This is the owning. This is the no-i-won't-be-performing, this is growing out of the glamour and back into the tattered shabby mis-constructed hearts shadow. This is me owning. This is me admitting. This is me realing-up, maning-up. growing up, wanting up. — Coco J. Ginger

I go to the opera. It's mostly my wife that's a bigger fan, I'd say, than I am. I like the big opera. I want a lot of people on stage, elephants and marching stuff, and the modern stuff I don't care for. — John Roberts

The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart. — Edwin Way Teale

Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it. — Katherine Anne Porter

This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak. — Sylvia Brownrigg

Up the river, toward the city, buttery sunlight bounced off the Temple of the Dawn, scattering color into the air like a jewel. — Sharon Guskin