Silty Soil Quotes & Sayings

Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree. (Ellen Hopkins) — Ellen Hopkins

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer. — Gary Jennings

the greatest mutational health hazard in the population is fertile old men. Thankfully, uniparental inheritance means that men don't pass on their mitochondria at all. — Nick Lane

I wish I felt like crying, because tears might bring a sense of release, but I don't. — Veronica Roth

life seems to shorten itself, and all of a sudden — Cherie Burns

When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out. — Olivia Cooke

Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969. — Elliott Abrams

I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my husband and even family events such as birthdays and friends' weddings and things that I've always just missed out on because of softball. — Jennie Finch

If you have a friend with a blond mustache, he wants to touch you. — Pete Holmes

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats. — Leonora Carrington

I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled. — Dan Rather

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them. — Michelle Obama

Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn't have any emotion. — Tom Ford

I certainly know guys in comedy, I know some actors, and I definitely know some musicians, who have survived to a certain age and make a good living doing what they do, but nobody knows who they are. They wake up every day and they have the ability to get paid practicing their art, but underneath it all, if you scratched the surface, you still get, "If I only had my own show ... ," or "If I only had my own band ... " It's what people always do when they want to be their own star. — Denis Leary

But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort into it, a lot of energy and a lot of yourself into something. I feel pretty successful about some movies I've been in that have not been greeted with a lot of enthusiasm and I do trust my own criteria. — Ben Affleck