Traven Toddlers Quotes & Sayings

I can remember the times when I started including humor in novels that were suspenseful. I was told you can't do that because you can't keep the audience in suspense if they're laughing. My attitude was, if the character has a sense of humor, then that makes the character more real because that's how we deal with the vicissitudes of life, we deal with it through humor. — Dean Koontz

Build, don't tell
Show , don't sell — Anonymous

I've never worked in the U.K. television industry, but my guess it that it's a tough world for directors. — Lenny Abrahamson

I can't bear to hear a woman talk baby talk. — Cary Grant

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll. — Muddy Waters

Lying to God is like sawing the branch you're sitting on. The better you do it, the harder you fall. — Frederick Buechner

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. — Graydon Carter

A huge cloud of dust is not a beautiful thing to look at. Very few painters have done portraits of huge clouds of dust or included them in their landscapes or still lifes. Film directors rarely choose huge clouds of dust to play the lead roles in romantic comedies, and as far as my research has shown, a huge cloud of dust has never placed higher than twenty-fifth in a beauty pageant. Nevertheless, as the Baudelaire orphans stumbled around the cell, dropped each half of the battering ram and listening to the sound of crows flying in circles outside, they stared at the huge cloud of dust as if it were a thing of great beauty. — Lemony Snicket

Normally the first to read the small print, I had deliberately hidden away any paperwork that referred to this ridiculous task, and now I found myself kissing goodbye to a laptop, a mobile phone and two fully-loaded MP3 players, not to mention the halogen light that allowed me to work through the night if I so desired. I stared disconsolately out over the shimmering tarmac and wondered if I might be granted permission to shave my legs. — Tabitha McGowan

What you decide to be is what you will begin to see. — Franklin Gillette

It has been fashionable in some psychiatric and lay circles to blame the mother for whatever goes wrong in development. [...]

If blame must be assessed it should be placed on the human condition which requires such prolonged dependence on one individual for development to take place. This makes the child extraordinarily vulnerable to the idiosyncrasies of that person (the mother). On the other hand, the prolonged dependence on this relationship also provides the potential for the richness of the human personality.

It is a mistake, in my judgment, in psychotherapy to encourage or side with the patient's hostility to the mother. The patient has to become aware of and express it in therapy in order to grow but whatever the source of this hostility is in the past -- be it an actual memory or a fantasy to rationalize a feeling state -- the problem is now the patient's responsibility and he must work it out. — James F. Masterson

The man who has done his level best ... is a success, even though the world write him down a failure. — B.C. Forbes

Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it. — George Carlin

There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer. — Seneca The Younger