Robert Shelton Quotes & Sayings

I had started trying - it for the first time, really - it to remember what had happened in that wood. I prodded tentatively around the edges of it, barely acknowledging even to myself what I was doing, like a kid picking at a scab but afraid to look. — Tana French

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind. — Sarah Zettel

I would already have a body count in the thirties by now, if it had been you. Heaven and hell. That's where I would go for you. — Tijan

I had four blak arrows under my belt,
Four for the greefs that I have felt,
Four for the number of ill menne
That have oppressid me now and then.
One is gone; one is wele sped;
Old Apulyaird is dead.
One is for Maister Bennet Hatch,
That burned Grimstone, walls and thatch.
One for Sir Oliver Oates,
That cut Sir Harry Shelton's throat.
Sir Daniel, ye shull have the fourt;
We shall think it fair sport.
Ye shull each have your own part,
A blak arrow in each blak heart.
Get ye to your knees for to pray;
Ye are ded theeves, by yea and nay!
JON AMEND-ALL
Of the Green Wood,
And his jolly fellaweship — Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is depressing and hopeless enough, without imbibing further depression and hopelessness through story. I don't care how realistic people like to think that is. It's not what inspires me, or makes me love and cherish a book or a television show or a movie. When I am imbibing fiction, I want to be inspired. I want bold tales, told boldly. I want genuine Good People who, while not perfect, are capable of rising beyond their ordinary beginnings. To make a positive difference in their world. Even when all hope or purpose might seem lost. Because this is what I think fiction - as originally told around the campfires, through verbal legend - ought to do, more than anything else: Illuminate the way, shine a spiritual beacon, tell us that there is a bright point in the darkness, a light to guide the way, when all other paths are cast in shadow. — Brad R. Torgersen

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve — W. Clement Stone

My socks are definitely in danger of being knocked off. — Abigail Boyd

Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent ... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself. — Kevin Allen

[On parenthood:] You can't change your mind
you know, and say, this isn't working out, let's sell. — Fran Lebowitz

Success becomes worthwhile if it fills your heart with happiness and not with stress. — Debasish Mridha

I think it's interesting that when you play a lesbian, people ask you if you're a lesbian, but if you play a serial killer, nobody asks you if you're a serial killer. — Nora Dunn

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language. — Margaret Cho

Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally. — Napoleon Bonaparte

You get into trouble if you criticize big business. The roof falls in if you criticize Congress. And we're getting increasingly cautious in criticizing the Administration. The pressures are getting worse. — Howard K. Smith