Storyville Portraits Quotes & Sayings

You always invest the money you earn. That's the only way you can really speed up your fortune. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do. — T. Harv Eker

You left this house whenever you wanted to, and came back at your whim, and you never once thought that your wife would be the one to leave. — Kyung-Sook Shin

Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously. — Anne Lamott

23 Q. What is a civil marriage? A. It is nothing but a mere formality prescribed by the [civil] law to give and insure the civil effects of the marriage to the spouses and their children. 24 Q. Is it sufficient for a Christian to get only the civil marriage or contract? A. For a Christian, it is not sufficient to get only the civil contract, because it is not a sacrament, and therefore not a true marriage. — Pope Pius X

Now, you might think it's hard to look intimidating when you're dressed in a ratty T-shirt, barefoot, and unarmed facing down a man who has a good ten inches on you, but that's bullshit. Intimidation is all about attitude. All you have to do is let just how much you'd love to kick the other guy's ass show on your face and even the biggest skullheads will start backing down. — Rachel Bach

You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man. — Henry A. Kissinger

Never play anything the same way twice. — Louis Armstrong

We are somewhat amused by the hysteria manifest in the press at the suggestion by Gordon Liddy that if one is menaced by bad guys (particularly the ninja) one is wise to shoot for the head. That statement has got a whole bunch of journalists and commentators bleeding from the nose. One wonders why it should. Where else should you shoot a man if he is probably wearing an armored vest? If you decide to shoot you have made the big decision. Where you place your shot is merely a technical matter. — Jeff Cooper

I need an office and a place I can sit down to get away from television and just write. — Allison Tolman

Everybody's entitled to that forty acres and a mule. You're going to do the work, but you have to have something to work with. If you don't have a job, where do you go from there? You hear people say Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, and you don't even have shoes. You're barefooted. What are you going to pull yourself up by? Our country owes every citizen of the United States of America a means of livelihood. Not a handout, but a way to make it. — Studs Terkel

And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it. — A.A. Milne

Thomas sniffed. "Don't let's start with all that." "I am not starting anything! You yourself started this business!" "Enough, Kam. I am warning you." "You don't warn me when I'm warning you! — Mira Jacob