Symms Caldwell Quotes & Sayings

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

somewhere deep inside you realize that the dream has taken a hit. It hasn't died, of course. But it has been dialed back - calibrated to the reality of deadlines, budgets, and limited resources. A similar process can happen for individuals who set out to create something, whether a book, a record album, or even a comedy routine. It's easy to "settle." At this very moment, you face a decision. — Michael Hyatt

91. Just because you're paranoid, does not mean they're not out to get you. — Kurt Cobain

I decided to try things, and I started to do things that would take me out of my comfort zone, and a lot of the times, that will cause you to either sink or swim. Really, I just lean on my inner circle and my faith to try to continue to encourage me so that I'm never out. I can be down, but I'm never out. — Omar Benson Miller

From a distance a metronome is ticking through the fog, and I mechanically chew to the familiar caress of its music, counting, along with everyone else, up to fifty: fifty statutory chews for each mouthful. And, still mechanically beating out the time, I go downstairs, and, like everyone else, check off my name in the book as one leaving the premises. But I sense that I'm living separately from everyone else, alone, surrounded by a soft, soundproof wall, and that my world is on my side of this wall. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Serving Leaders work hard to get obstacles out of the way so others can make progress. — John Stahl-Wert

Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I think to myself, "Fiction can't compete with this."
But when I mentioned this to a veteran manga artist friend of mine he said that "fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all."
His words strengthened the conviction of my manga spirit. — Hiromu Arakawa

Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things. — Leonard Maltin

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest. — Thomas Jefferson

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life. — Arthur Rubinstein

I want people around me who call me out and hold me accountable. — Hunter Parrish

Memories, as my father once said, are porcupines. To hell with them! Stay away from them! They make you unhappy. They ruin your work. They make you cry — Ray Bradbury

Sharing hope is powerful stuff, and sharing knowledge is highly beneficial, but sharing love changes the world! — Sheldon K. Bass