Sarkeebi Quotes & Sayings

Back when I was 16, when I should have been doing normal high school things, I availed myself of my brand new driver's license to spend as much time as possible in Milwaukee's Renaissance Book Shop, a tumbledown five-story warehouse that the city was finally able to close down in 2011 for safety reasons. It was my teenage paradise. — Rick Perlstein

I don't know anybody. I turn sentences around, and that's it. — Philip Roth

Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue. — Steven Pressfield

To rule out the possibility of belief in another's reality is to encapsulate that reality and, thus, to impose implicity the hegemony of one's own view of the world. — Katherine P. Ewing

I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy. — Marianne Williamson

The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense. — John Scalzi

EMOTIONAL SHAME BINDS Our emotions are the core of our basic power. Two of the major functions they serve in our psychic life are: 1. They monitor our basic needs, telling us of a need, loss or satiation. Without our emotional energy, we would not be aware of our most fundamental needs. 2. They give us the fuel or energy to act. I like to hyphenate the word "emotion." An e-motion is energy in motion. This energy moves us to get what we need. When our basic needs are being violated, our anger moves us to fight or run. — John Bradshaw

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. — John Updike

From the earlier discussion of Europe in the nineteenth century, however, it should be clear that the middle classes are not inevitably supporters of democracy. This tends to be particularly true when the middle classes still constitute a minority of the population. — Francis Fukuyama

He loved the strange privacy of being different. — Niall Williams

I had been born and mostly raised in the South, so I ought to have been able to find a way to reach him. Southern girls are trained from birth up that the way to a man's heart is never through the front door. They may leave a basket of cookies there, and while he's busy picking them up, they're squirming in through a back window. — Joshilyn Jackson