Sieling 2020 2021 Quotes & Sayings

I think the desire to reject elites, to retreat within more comfortable geographic and personal borders and to lash out at political correctness is not a phenomenon unique to Britain or the US. — Christopher Michael Cillizza

Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works. — Tom Robbins

I was making love to this girl and she started crying. I said, "Are you going to hate yourself in the morning?" She said, "No, I hate myself now." — Rodney Dangerfield

No, it's never happened to me before but I doubt after I fell head over heels in love with a wonderful man who kept important things from me, I'll get over it just like that. I'll drink with my girls and cry and wonder if I made the right decision. Then another man will come along, he won't be as wonderful as my first love, but I suppose I'll eventually get over it and move on. — Kristen Ashley

We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory is possible - that we simply recognize different things at different times and in different ways. — Robertson Davies

She knew how you went about falling in love; she did not know how you went about falling into trust. — Jodi Picoult

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't. — Thomas S. Monson

Making art is dealing with people on your own terms. The ideal way of using people is using them like clay, but that being out of the question, except for lunatics and leaders, art is a good alternative. — Lucas Samaras

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die - that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough.
We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer. — Alistair MacLean

The reason twenty-nine feet is such a common length for RVs, I presume, is that once a vehicle gets much longer, you need a special permit to drive it. That would mean forms and fees, possibly even background checks. But show up at any RV joint with your thigh stumps lashed to a skateboard, crazily waving your hooks-for-hands, screaming you want that twenty-nine-footer out back for a trip you ain't sayin' where, and all they want to know is: Credit or debit, tiny sir? — John Jeremiah Sullivan

The great Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, "I did not ask for success, I asked for wonder."17 — Rob Bell

I suppose we should contact the local authorities?" said Wilbur.
"I'm a princess," said Harriet. "We're in the hamster kingdom. I kinda am the authorities."
"Yeah, but you're more a hitting-things-with-a-sword princess than a rehabilitating-villains princess."
"Being hit with a sword can be very rehabilitating, under the right circumstances. — Ursula Vernon

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways. — Aimee Mann

We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for. — Shannon L. Alder