Trockels Quotes & Sayings

I love winners when they cry, losers when they try. — Tom T. Hall

One weekend it rained for 48 hours without stopping. The rain beat like bony fingers against the window panes. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Fungus was growing on the walls. I polished off a bottle of gin sitting huddled over the two-bar electric fire and wrote a poem, one of the few that has lasted through the moves and the years. It is called 'Where Can I Go?'
If this is not the place where tears are understood where do I go to cry?
If this is not the place where my spirits can take wing where do I go to fly?
If this is not the place where my feelings can be heard where do I go to speak?
If this is not the place where you'll accept me as I am where can I go to be me?
If this is not the place where I can try and learn and grow where can I go to laugh and cry? — Alice Jamieson

When life hands you lemons, hand them back and demand chocolate! — Suzanne Sweeney

I learned my color in Europe. I've always been a colorist, I think. I started when I was very young, being a bird-watcher, fascinated by the bird colors. — Ellsworth Kelly

As she reached the landing, the thunder came. The whole house seemed to shake with it. — Robert Bloch

And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist. — Geraldine Brooks

The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don't have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them. — Mother Teresa

If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail. — D.H. Lawrence

Discipleship is developing a personal, lifelong, obedient relationship with Jesus Christ in which He transforms your character into Christlikeness; changes your values to Kingdom values; and involves you in His mission in the home, in the church, and in the world. — Avery T. Willis Jr.

I think eyebrow gel is genius. — Suki Waterhouse

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks. — Austin O'Malley

My nature just changes. — Jimi Hendrix