Rockdale Quotes & Sayings

I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea. — Katherine Jenkins

Why do you need a voice when you have a verse? — Jim Elliot

I did something the other day that not many have been taught.
I prayed for those who hurt me, to eventually find there way- not because they deserve it but because i deserve the growth. — Nikki Rowe

Being his workmanship doesn't mean we are all poets. It means we are all poems, individual created works of a creative God. And this poetry comes out uniquely through us as we worship, think, love, pray, rest, work, and exist. — Emily P. Freeman

To be responsibly self-directing means that one chooses - and then learns from the consequences. So clients find this a sobering but exciting kind of experience. — Carl R. Rogers

TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be. — Elia Kazan

The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my own coffee, hear the news, and the CBS car arrives 5:30. — Charlie Rose

To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target. — Janet Yellen

Taking steps is easy
Standing still is hard ...
Everything is different
The second time around. — Regina Spektor

I loved having a dad who was smarter than the New York Times, and I loved how my cheek could feel the hairs on his chest through his T-shirt, and how he always smelled like shaving, even at the end of the day. Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I realize I'm crying a little, too. I remember. Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you through the messier tunnels of growing up. But pain can only help you find happiness if you remember it. — Adam Silvera

- Problem what happened he always woke up the same person went to bed the night before only way he knew it these God damned words going through his head, go to bed knew he'd wake up the same God damned person finally couldn't take it anymore, same God damned words waiting for him only thing to do get rid of the God damned container for the thing contained, God damned words come around next morning God damned container smashed on the sidewalk no place for them to ... — William Gaddis

If summer was a book then I was going to write something beautiful in it. In my own handwriting. But I had no idea what to write. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company. — Charles Dickens

There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been
practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet. — Elbert Hubbard

Things were pretty cold-blooded back in Rockdale.
That's when my arms were so pretty I could hold them up to the light and see the veins curling all clean and smooth like little blue branches. — Adam Rapp