Shawnacy Perez Quotes & Sayings

Success is not achieved, it is attracted. — Farshad Asl

I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production. — Phil Anselmo

Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end ... — Kate DiCamillo

I tug at the ends of her sweater near her wrist, and her fingers twist up in defense. Nope. Not having it. First chance I get, I'm throwing every long-sleeved item in the trash and burning it with a single match and a gallon of gas. — Katie McGarry

God, I wish you could've been there. — J.D. Salinger

What part of your duty am I?"
He squeezed her hand. "You're the ray of sun at the center of the storm. — Courtney Milan

Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to. — Gabrielle Giffords

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. — Vladimir Nabokov

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You've got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn't going to work. — Randy Pausch

As long as you have a beating heart, it's never too late. But you do need to get on with it [. . .] every second you squander is an affront to an unforgiving universe. — Andrea Waltz

Thatsh prieshts for you," said the old man wetly. "Nothing by torc, torc, torc. — Terry Pratchett

She kept reminding me she was at a wedding, which didn't really help my emotional state, if you know what I mean. — Hilary Grossman

The old botanical metaphors for memory, with their emphasis on continual, indeterminate organic growth, are, it turns out, remarkably apt. In fact, they seem to be more fitting than our new, fashionably high-tech metaphors, which equate biological memory with the precisely defined bits of digital data stored in databases and processed by computer chips. Governed by highly variable biological signals, chemical, electrical, and genetic, every aspect of human memory - the way it's formed, maintained, connected, recalled - has almost infinite gradations. Computer memory exists as simple binary bits - ones and zeros - that are processed through fixed circuits, which can be either open or closed but nothing in between. — Nicholas Carr

You have to be someone. — Bob Marley

The key to our transformation is simply this: the better we know ourselves the better equipped we will be to make our choices wisely. — Gregg Braden