Snubs And Surprises Quotes & Sayings

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top. — Confucius

it's a good thing I'm used to this;
the process of shutting things out
as they fall apart,
the pretence of cool
in a dry, hot season,
the taste of redemption
in a t.v. screen


if God had a voice
what would it say? — Hima Raza

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

They will never again build like this, he thought. Dignity is an anachronism. — Ellen Glasgow

You get to a point where you just have to give up,"...she deeply understood the "relief" of finding yourself to be small in the face of mystery. — Sara Miles

...saving a life and nurturing a life are different processes, and that to succeed in the former one must dispense with the pathos of the latter. — Anthony Marra

I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love. — Anais Nin

Nobody knew anyone else's private world. In the end, they were all alone as inmates on death row, side by side. Sometimes you could get a look at one another with a little pocket mirror, cell to cell, but that was all. — Janet Fitch

[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"
(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.) — David Halberstam

I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results. — Gary Ross

I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it. — Barack Obama

Life Is All About Range — Jane Pastore Coleman