Slabbinck Banners Quotes & Sayings

What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I was HIV positive ... — Robbin Crosby

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. — Ulysses S. Grant

I would say, for the moment, that community, at least community larger than the immediate family, consists very largely of imaginative love for people we do not know or whom we know very slightly. This thesis may be influenced by the fact that I have spent literal years of my life lovingly absorbed in the thoughts and perceptions of - who knows it better than I? - people who do not exist. And, just as writers are engrossed in the making of them, readers are profoundly moved and also influenced by the nonexistent, that great clan whose numbers increase prodigiously with every publishing season. I think fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification. — Marilynne Robinson

Your first problem is relying on someone else's word. Always depend on yourself. No one will work as hard for you as you will. — Behdad Sami

The day is bright and sparkling, so beautifully alive. It's amazing how sunshine can clear away the doubts than night brings. — Karina Halle

Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late." — Sterling W. Sill

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me. — Philip Warren Anderson

I think that where it came from and the initial birth of it - it did come out of a jam at Bruno's studio, you know? He was playing drums. And Jeff Bhasker, who co-produced the record with us, is on synths, and I was playing bass. — Mark Ronson

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time. — Rabih Alameddine

Don't come home a failure. — Ty Cobb

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid. — Henry David Thoreau

Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest need is to be seen. — Marianne Williamson