Salvage Sacs Quotes & Sayings

I was first published in the newspaper put out by School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where I was a student. I wince to read that story nowadays, but I published it with an odd photo I'd found in a junk shop, and at least I still like the picture. I had a few things in the school paper, and then I got published in a small literary magazine. I hoped I would one day get published in The New Yorker, but I never allowed myself to actually believe it. Getting published is one of those things that feels just as good as you'd hoped it would. — David Sedaris

Happiness made Marv anxious because he knew it didn't last. But happiness destroyed was worth wrapping your arms around because it always hugged you back. — Dennis Lehane

The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority. — Eric Hoffer

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. — Jim Carrey

If you wait long enough, something will happen - there has never been a time when nothing happened. — Aleksandar Hemon

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. — Anna Freud

I just know whenever I fall off His path, things get really hard. So I just stick with what God tells me to do. — Joe Wurzelbacher

if Christians are to know the greatness of Jesus Christ's victory over death, they must know that death is evil. — Rob Moll

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old. — Dinaw Mengestu

It's good netiquette to empathize with others online. It builds strong internet relationships. — David Chiles

Books don't change the world, people change the world, books only change people. — Mario Quintana

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you. — Muhammad Iqbal

I lay on my back and stared up at that unseeing, uncaring sky. I doubted God lived up there; I doubted heaven was up there, too.
God and heaven were down there on the ground, in the gardens, in the forests, in the parks, on the seashores, on the lakes, and riding the highways, going somewhere! — V.C. Andrews

A pigeon a day keeps the natives away. — Arthur Ransome