Sybila Erwin Quotes & Sayings

When it's me in my living room, it's pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there. — Liz Phair

I haven't heard anything from anyone in the administration. — Timothy Bottoms

It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself and almost destroyed everything. Now it was unfolding, like a flower coming into bloom, radiant with possibility. — Lois Lowry

Prospero, you are the master of illusion.
Lying is your trademark.
And you have lied so much to me
(Lied about the world, lied about me)
That you have ended by imposing on me
An image of myself.
Underdeveloped, you brand me, inferior,
That s the way you have forced me to see myself
I detest that image! What's more, it's a lie!
But now I know you, you old cancer,
And I know myself as well. — Aime Cesaire

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career. — Michael J. Fox

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun. — Jack White

Determination and focus is all it takes to achieve success. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I could take back those moments that snatched you away from me or maybe just wipe away those ten minutes when you came to me for the first time and I looked into your eyes to realise what love is. — Faraaz Kazi

I'd bring you flowers — Barbara Freethy

Recently, the very thought of going to the dance with Grady made Violet's skin itch, as if she might be breaking out in hives-or more likely a bad case of second thoughts. — Kimberly Derting

Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral. — Lester Bangs

Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From time to time, when a piece of music no one has ever written or a painting no one has ever painted, or something else impossible to predict, fathom or yet describe takes place, a new feeling enters the world. And then, for the millionth time in the history of feeling, the heart surges and absorbs the impact. — Nicole Krauss

Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away ... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense. — Calvin Trillin

What's funny is that an old Web site of mine just had one fake bio, and everyone went crazy for it. So when I made the new Web site, I thought, 'I just need to make this one even more absurd.' — Jarrett J. Krosoczka

If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place — Attila The Hun