Shilon Dystan Quotes & Sayings

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others ... It's a good metaphor for parenting — Amanda Peet

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart. — Edward Abbey

And the figure of the income he had arrived at had never been high enough to look any one in the face. — Henry James

Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep and dark within myself. — Edward Hirsch

I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time. — Conor Oberst

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine. — John Shirley

I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected. — James Purefoy

After you reach a certain age, they think you're over. Well, I will never be over. I'll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I've done that in my past, and I'd do it again. — Dolly Parton

God seems to throw Himself on the side of the man who knows exactly what he wants, if he is determined to get JUST THAT! — Napoleon Hill

She points at my chest.
"And much more interestingly, what's that?"
"Blood," I say.
She gets her camera out. — David Almond

Gussie and I, as I say, had rather lost touch, but all the same I was exercised about the poor fish, as I am about all my pals, close or distant, who find themselves treading upon Life's banana skins. — P.G. Wodehouse

We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no gods or emperors. We do not believe in the existence of any saviour. We want to be masters of the world and not instruments used by autocrats to carry out their wild ambitions. We want a modern lifestyle and democracy for the people. Freedom and happiness are our sole objectives in accomplishing modernisation. — Wei Jingsheng

If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations. — John C. Maxwell

Once in a while you have to bite the hand that reads you. — Tina Brown

Be an opener of doors — Ralph Waldo Emerson