Soberscum Quotes & Sayings

I hate writing, I hate pens and paper and all that fussiness. I have done well enough without it too, I think. Oh, I am lying to myself. I have feared writing. But books have saved me sometimes, that is the truth - my Samaritans. — Sebastian Barry

How do you keep ninety people together with one stick? I've got two sticks and I can't keep five people together. — Ian Paice

If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lady you berfet me of all words,/Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,/ And there is such confusion in my powers. — William Shakespeare

jeans jacket, catching him in a chokehold, pistol at — Donna Tartt

It's the opening line of a football game returned for a touchdown. Or fumbled.

It's what orange juice is to breakfast, the first minutes of a blind date, a salesman's opening remarks.

It sets the tone, lights the stage, greases the skids for everything to follow.

It's the most important part of everything you'll ever write because if it doesn't work, whatever follows won't matter. It won't get read.

It's your opening paragraph. And enough can't be said about its importance.

Seduction. That's basically what leads are all about--enticing the reader across the threshold of your book, novel or article--because nothing happens until you get 'em inside.

And you literally have only seconds to do it because surveys show that eight out of ten people quit reading whatever it is they've started after the first fifty words. — Lionel Fisher

I once held a belief that life made sense, that working toward a dream would birth substance. Nothing else mattered. I soon discovered that success is as long-lasting as any of life's novelties.
We've all been happy with new things, only to be disappointed later. Dolls and soldiers our parents toiled to give us found their way to pedestals, then to the back of closets.
I'd always dreamed of marrying a woman I loved and watching my children grow. I wonder if our lives should be filled with the pursuit of such dreams, those magical hopes interwoven into our story. Our stories are decorative shells for the crabs we really are, both protecting and exposing us to the manic outside. — Christopher Hawke

You may
blame Aphrodite
soft as she is
she has almost
killed me with
love for that boy — Sappho

Faith and humility are at their root one, and that we can never have more of true faith than we have of true humility. It is possible to have strong intellectual convictions and assurance of the truth while pride is still in the heart, but it makes living faith, which has power with God, impossible. — Andrew Murray

The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had I been more successful. — Kathy Ireland

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt

The 19 hijackers that came over here to commit the attack on Sept. 11, there were those that were at the bottom of the line. There were those who were the principal conspirators. There were those who were the pilot. Everybody has a role. — Robert Mueller

We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign. — John Ortberg