Strongroom Imdb Quotes & Sayings

I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living. — William, Saroyan

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake. — Mark Twain

The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too. — Jennifer James

Any time you build a company designed to be sold, you ultimately get less value if it's sold. — Joe Kraus

The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals. — Thomas Sowell

Did you see her?" the Marid said nervously, looking at her with great dark eyes. "Our daughter. Standing on the Gear. Dis you see her?"
"What?" said September - and then she winked out, like someone blowing out a candle, and all the field was still. — Catherynne M Valente

I held up my glass and stared through it, where things looked as distorted as they really were. — Kami Garcia

There is, I believe, no such thing as unconditional self-acceptance. Those who say so are promulgating a pernicious lie. One must first live a decent, honorable and productive life. Only then do you get to feel good about yourself.
Seeking to heedlessly gratify your desires or impulses of the moment to do things (or fail to do things) your conscience knows to be contrary to your standards of right, worthy and virtuous behavior is, in a mental, emotional and spiritual sense, akin to spending capital that you have not earned, and therefore will eventually cause you to feel very negatively ... about who and what you are. You cannot in the long run have your cake and eat it too. The longer ... you behave in certain ways, the more it comes to define you, not only to others, but also to yourself. — Laura C. Schlessinger

Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God. — R.A. Torrey

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process. — Guy Ritchie

If you start most of your sentences with 'Why Can't', 'Why Not', or 'What if', you'll build a stronger imagination. — Corey Aaron Burkes

You never did ask each other anything, did you? And you never told each other anything. You just sat and watched each other, and guessed at what was going on underneath. A deaf-and-dumb asylum, in fact! — Edith Wharton

Culture can only function if we live out the unwanted elements symbolically. All healthy societies have a rich ceremonial life. Less healthy ones rely on unconscious expressions: war, violence, psychosomatic illness, neurotic suffering, and accidents are very low-grade ways of living out the shadow. Ceremony and ritual are a far more intelligent means of accomplishing the same thing. Ceremonies — Robert A. Johnson

Be a Mother who is committed to loving her children into standing on higher ground than the enviroment surrounding them. Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of the earth. — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

It may be true too that I would not have encountered the most important books and art and ideas of my life had I not chased down a Ph.D. I've thought about that a lot ... MAYBE I would have found the same books on my own, but I can't know for sure. — Lidia Yuknavitch