Sholley Trolley Quotes & Sayings

Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you bring it in. — Frederick Lenz

What was this passion that attacked women for knitting under the most unpropitious conditions? A woman did not look her best knitting; the absorption, the glassy eyes, the restless, busy fingers! One needed the agility of a wild cat, and the will-power of a Napoleon to manage to knit in a crowded tube, but women managed it! If they succeeded in obtaining a seat, out came a miserable little strip of shrimp pink and click, click went the pins! — Agatha Christie

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them. — Vincent De Paul

Sebastian never does anything just for fun." Jace took Clary's hand and pulled her toward him. "But I do. — Cassandra Clare

You can fight a porcupine and win, but if other folks get a look at you they may think it's a bad idea to mess with porcupines. — Neal Knox

The stories themselves aren't what moves him now ... What moves him are the shadowy people behind the stories, the workers weary from their days, gathering at night in front of a comforting bit of fire ... The world then was no less terrifying than it is now, with our nightmares of bombs and disease and technological warfare. Anything held the ability to set of fear ... a nail dropped in a the hay, wolves circling at the edge of the woods ... — Lauren Groff

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all. — Phil McGraw

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research. — Andrew Bird

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. — Charles Baudelaire

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank. — Criss Jami

I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing to go out shooting up Botox and eating corn dogs while judging pig contests. — Al Jourgensen

all my ancestors were from the South and some even fought and died for the losing side. Perhaps that's why I was long resigned to my failure to publish. — Katherine Paterson