Shuggys Quotes & Sayings

There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual ... Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment. — Mark Twain

If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind. — Dalai Lama

The authenticity paradox: vulnerability is the last thing I want you to see in me and the first thing I look for in you. — Brene Brown

As large publishers turn into monopolies, and the MBAs who are running them - maybe editors used to run them before - are steadily tightening the screws, they feel more and more that they get to call the shots. — William T. Vollmann

I discovered I loved acting at a Summer Camp. That's when I really realised that I enjoyed it and that I wanted to try it. — Jared Gilman

An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that afterward one cannot be sure that one was somewhere or had newly experienced anything. If you aren't much in the world, how do you know you are "out of this world"? — Paul Goodman

I loathe most crossover music. Yet I like to think when it comes to Code it's something different. — Mat McNerney

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute. — Myles Munroe

sorrow and despair. All too many — Diana Gabaldon

at times the just must pay for sinners. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

People are more dangerous when they're calm. When theyre loud and aggressive that's usually an act and usually trying to compensate — Cub Swanson

In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket and knew two things: I'm broke as hell and one day I won't be. You Can Achieve Anything! — Dwayne Johnson

The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy. — Karen Hughes

AND WHAT THE YOUNG WRITERS ALL FAILED TO REALIZE IS THAT THE WAY YOU BEST CONNECT TO THE READER IS NOT BY CRAFTING THE MOST LYRICAL AND DAZZLING ARRAY OF WORDS, NOT BY BEING UNCLEAR AND HINTING AT YOUR MUDDLED MEANING THROUGH PLEASANT-SOUNDING VAGUERY, BUT BY COMMUNICATING A SEQUENCE OF MEANINGFUL IDEAS IN A WAY THE READER CAN ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND. — Film Crit Hulk!