Sawley Avenue Quotes & Sayings

Survive long enough and you get to a far point in life where nothing else of particular interest is going to happen. After that, if you don't watch out, you can spend all your time tallying your losses and gains in endless narrative. All you love has fled or been taken away. Everything fallen from you except the possibility of jolting and unforewarned memory springing out of the dark, rushing over you with the velocity of heartbreak. May walking down the hall humming an old song - "The Girl I Left Behind Me" - or the mere fragrance of clove in spiced tea can set you weeping and howling when all you've been for weeks on end is numb. — Charles Frazier

Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. I'm afraid. More afraid than you'd ever believe.' And he'd take her hand and they'd fly across the rooftops and up into space and sit on some planet and watch a double sunrise or maybe a star being born or some other event that no human had ever seen, her head on his shoulder, his arm around her. And she'd tell him everything. — Jenny Downham

She noticed Willa ended up getting an ice cream sandwich, not a popsicle like she advised, but she decided she would still love her, even if she didn't go with the popsicle like she did. — Alex

Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him. — Bruno Schulz

Who wouldn't want to be in 'Star Wars?' It'd be great. — John Boyega

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point. — Paul Thomas Anderson

I think sports media really do need to think about the world in more humble terms. Not everything is the game of the century, and not everything is life or death. — Tim Tebow

Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I always think the relationship between a teacher and a student should be short and maybe violent. You don't need to spend years together. All you need is an explosion: you are the material to explode; the teacher is the detonator. — Pierre Boulez