Sherrier Primary Quotes & Sayings

But to return to my own case, I thought more modestly of my book and it would be inaccurate even to say that I thought of those who would read it as "my" readers. For it seemed to me that they would not be "my" readers but the readers of their own selves, my book being merely a sort of magnifying glass like those which the optician at Combray used to offer his customers - it would be my book, but with its help I would furnish them with the means of reading what lay inside themselves. So that I should not ask them to praise me or to censure me, but simply to tell me whether "it really is like that," I should ask them whether the words that they read within themselves are the same as those which I have written (though a discrepancy in this respect need not always be the consequence of an error on my part, since the explanation could also be that the reader had eyes for which my book was not a suitable instrument). — Marcel Proust

Get your mind unbound and free; and then from the loosest, highest, best place you have, with the fastest and most humorous mind you can get together, you can reach out and make a try at understanding Spirit. — Stephen Gaskin

I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player. — Mikhail Tal

How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds. — Gina Barreca

Al the povere peple tho pescoddes fetten; Benes and baken apples thei broghte in hir lappe, Chibolles and chervelles and ripe chiries manye, And profrede Piers this present to plese with Hunger. — William Langland

No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away. — Henry Rollins

And when I picture his mind, I hear my name as a shy crystal ping that occurs once, maybe twice, a day and quickly subsides. I just wish he thought about me as much as I do him. — Gillian Flynn

Congressmen had a use for their very own son of a bitch. — Rick Perlstein

Those who, relying upon themselves only, not looking for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who will reach the top-most height. — Gautama Buddha

Like Riley said, I was god now. Stronger,faster, better. Nobody else counted. — Stephenie Meyer

All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress. — Patrick Stump

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say. — Louis C.K.

It's better to die than to live in the knowledge that you've done something that needs forgiveness. — Andrzej Sapkowski

Most people leaving church still see the need for some kind of community. We shouldn't think most of them as interested in lone-ranger Christianity. Often, these ex-churchgoers meet together for prayer, accountability, and encouragement. — Kevin DeYoung