Quotes & Sayings About Rising Above The Odds

You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for. — Britt Daniel

Love is a shortcut to God. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows. — Mick Cornett

It Takes 17 Muscles To Smile and 42 To Frown ... It Takes Only 13 Muscles to Throw A Molotov Cocktail — Dean Cavanagh

The storyboard for me is the way to visualise the entire movie in advance, — Martin Scorsese

They watched the humans disappear. They watched them dissolve, like moving tablets in the humid air. — Markus Zusak

My husbands weren't any of them bad men, I was the problem. Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.

And then I couldn't fit my whole self into a marriage, no matter who my husband was. There were parts of me that John liked, and different parts for the others, but no one could deal with all of me, So I'd lop some part off, but then I'd start missing it, wanting it back. I didn't really fall in love until I had that first child. — Karen Joy Fowler

If that had been my last show last night, you'd be talking to the new guy, asking the same questions that I got. — David Mandel

We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream. — Ted Cruz

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city. — Ben Nicholson

Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer. — Sam Weller

However, by Sunday noon
not coincidentally, the unhappiest hour in America
you may have run through your options and wind up slumped on a couch, suffering from the Sabbath existential crisis. It's at just such unfocused, unproductive times, says Csikszentmihalyi, that people start ruminating and feeling that their lives are wasted and so forth. — Winifred Gallagher

Dale Mayer is a prolific multi-published writer. She's best known for her Psychic Visions series. Besides her romantic suspense/thrillers, Dale also writes paranormal — Dale Mayer

Stupid people don't always know that they're stupid. They might be aware that something is wrong, they might notice that things don't usually turn out the way they imagined, but very few of them think it's because of them. That they're the root of their own problems, so to speak. And that sort of thing can be very difficult to explain. — Jonas Karlsson