Smilingatconfusion Quotes & Sayings

That was Dad's life, and I was the birdshit on his windshield. — Richard Bachman

Do you know why that cow looks over that wall? She looks over the wall because she cannot see through it, and that is what you must do with your troubles ... Look over and above them. — John Wesley

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become. — Nikki Reed

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop. — Zoe Kazan

Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood? — Isaac Newton

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system. — Max Hastings

My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen ... my mother and three or four of her friends ... told stories ... with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition. — Paule Marshall

She was as faithful as a morning mist, as hard as a sword-bayonet, and that, he thought, made her a suitable reward for a soldier. — Bernard Cornwell

Sometimes I try to erase myself. And then, if I've done a good job, I'm erased. I'm nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl. And I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I'm not outside my world anymore, and I'm not really inside it either. The thing is, there's no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. — Jerry Spinelli

He tossed me over his shoulder, making his way through the crowd behind us. "Make way! Move it, people! Let's make room for this poor woman's hideously disfigured, ginormous brain! She's a fucking genius!"
I giggled at the amused and curious exp — Jamie McGuire