Unrewarded Efforts Quotes & Sayings

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story. — Jess Walter

Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch. — Eddie Van Halen

I have an African gray parrot; her name is Eli. We thought she was a boy. And a blue-streaked lory named Marco. He's 10. And a yellow and green parakeet, Petey. He's very cute, but he's getting old. — Roz Chast

I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing ... creating ... it's in my DNA. — Janelle Monae

The greater part performed achieves the less. — John Dryden

A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition. — Anatoli Boukreev

If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves. — Tullian Tchividjian

I was like Elvis "The Pelvis" Presley on Ed Sullivan, I tells ya, punished for the crime of being sexy. (him on the telly , me in a dingy alley ... any analogy will break down under scrutiny.) — Russell Brand

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers. — Leo Strauss

The tasks you set yourself are cruelly difficult. There is no certainty you will accomplish even one, and much risk you will fail in all of them. In either case, your efforts may well go unrewarded, unsung, forgotten. And at the end, like all mortals, you must face your death; perhaps without even a mound of honor to mark your resting place. — Lloyd Alexander

Don't worry," I said. "These men are good. They're going to heal the world. — Maria V. Snyder