Thanks For The Simple Gift Quotes & Sayings

I'm not good at living in the grim places ... when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being. — Bruce Dern

It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping. — Oscar Wilde

You are a painter of success. Paint your life into a masterpiece of excellence. — Mark LaMoure

It's not that I don't like the real world I just wouldn't want to live here full time. — M.T. McGuire

I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race. — George W. Bush

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. — Rebecca West

I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful. — Rod Serling

But we Americans scrap relationships that are not working as we would like -- whether they be with relatives, with spouses, or with friends. We dispose of them like Kleenex. When it is inconvenient, painful, difficult, I get rid of you. I hit the road. — Stuart Miller

When we change the way we communicate, we change society — Clay Shirky

Outrage is like a lot of other things that feel good but, over time, devour us from the inside out. Except it's even more insidious than most vices because we don't even consciously acknowledge that it's a pleasure. We prefer to think of it as a disagreeable but fundamentally healthy reaction to negative stimuli, like pain or nausea, rather than admit that it's a shameful kick we eagerly indulge again and again, like compulsive masturbation. And, — Tim Kreider

From a historical point of view, restricting the availability of addictive substances must be seen as a peculiarly perverse example of Calvinist dominator thought - a system in which the sinner is to be punished in this world by being transformed into an exploitable, of his cash, by the criminal/governmental combine that provides the addicitve substances. The image is more horrifying than that of the serpent that devours itself - it is once again the Dionysian image of the mother who devours her children, the image of a house divided against itself. — Terence McKenna

When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas' — Paul Merson

Be very focused. Do your homework so your research and claims are unassailable. Make sure it is bulletproof and then make sure you are really focused. The thing I find is that the issues are usually so large that you try to cover a lot of ground. That's a natural impulse. — Amy Ziering