Simkus Carol Quotes & Sayings

There is a great tendency today to want everybody to write just the way everybody else does, to see and to show the same things in the same way to the same middling audience. But the writer, in order best to use the talents he has been given, has to write at his own intellectual level. For him to do anything else is to bury his talents. This doesn't mean that, within his limitations, he shouldn't try to reach as many people as possible, but it does mean that he must not lower his standards to do so. — Flannery O'Connor

Love is being willing to become the villain so that the one you love can stay a hero. — Josephine Angelini

We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction. — Steve Miller

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react. — Jennifer Beals

A beloved daughter who now spent holidays alone. — Cheryl Strayed

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair. — Haruki Murakami

I am the biggest fan of my dreams. If I give up on myself, then my dreams have died...I will not let that happen. — Toye Lawson Brown

I really tried out for the part of Harry Potter, but they ended up picking me for the part of the enemy of Harry. Actually it is really fun playing the bad kid because it just has so many interesting qualities to it. And Daniel Radcliffe and I get along really well off set so it's really fun filming. — Tom Felton

For every whack I've given, I've gotten four or five. — Sidney Crosby

Anything done without character can only end in catastrophe. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer. — Louis Kronenberger

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved. — Paul Dirac

If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this. — C.S. Lewis

I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me! — Jimmy Connors

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense. — Deidre Hall