Touchline Juicy Quotes & Sayings

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to. — Mahatma Gandhi

Still, the night feels restless underneath me — Patti Callahan Henry

If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive. — James Lee Burke

Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation. — Roger Mahony

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply. — John Bright

And while I got that about him, he never seemed to understand or believe it when I told him I wasn't like that. That I was happy to coast. To drift and summersault like a dried-out leaf in the late fall, hoping to avoid the rake, the collecting pile, the compost heap. — Catherine McKenzie