Respite From Talking Quotes & Sayings

Relax and breathe. The trouble with imaginative people is that we're good at picturing the worst that could happen to us. Fear is often just the imagination taking a wrong turn. Bad criticism is not the end of the world. As far as I know, no one has ever died from a bad review. Take a deep breath and accept whatever comes. — Austin Kleon

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows. — Mason Cooley

Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community. — Jane Smiley

The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends. — Eli Wallach

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things. — Lorrie Moore

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom. — Isabelle Eberhardt

As I grew up, I knew that as a building (Fenway Park) was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation's capitol, the czar's Winter Palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that is better than all those inconsequential places — Bart Giamatti

The contraption was necessary because my lungs sucked at being lungs. — John Green

I would have been a geologist. — Stephen Sondheim

If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning. — Dallas Willard

Anyone can cook, and most everyone should. — Mark Bittman

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion. — Herbert Gold

I'd felt so many things since our journey began - joy, fear, hope, horror - but until now, I'd never once felt alone. — Ransom Riggs

If there are alleys inside me, there must also be hallways. I — Markus Zusak