Valancy Cook Quotes & Sayings

When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing. — James Garner

It wasn't enough to catch a glimpse of these lands and ideas through the small window of the pages she turned. She wanted to step through and feel the yellow waters of the Yangtze herself, to hear the celestial music of foreign pipes, to taste the foods described by adventurers who traveled purposefully into the areas on maps labeled 'Here be tygres. — Liz Braswell

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves. — George Bernard Shaw

The greatest possesion of man is character — Marcus Garvey

My favorite thing you do is stop me in the middle of whatever I'm doing to tell me you love me. — Crystal Woods

Mike Shea became a medic during the war and was now married, working for Pfizer. To this day he can't look at her straight. To this day she can't quite convince herself that the sin was as grave as it seemed. (She thought, in fact, of telling the priest as he whispered his furious admonitions that she weighed barely a hundred pounds and was as thin as a boy and if he would adjust his imagination accordingly and see the buds of her breasts and her flat stomach and the bony points of her hips, he would understand that even buck naked, her body was not made for mortal sin.) She can — Alice McDermott

Every person's story contains chapters of pain and loss, victory and defeat, love and hate, pride and prejudice, courage and fear, faith and self-distrust, charity and kindness, selfishness and jealously. Every person's story also contains folios of hopefulness and truthfulness, deceit and despair, action and change, passion and compassion, excitement and boredom, birth and creation, mutation and defect, generation and preservation, delusions and illusions, imagination and fantasy, bafflement and puzzlement. What makes a person's selfsame story unique is how he or she organizes the pure and impure forces that comprise them, how they respond to internal and external crisis, if they act in a safeguarding and humble manner, or lead a self-seeking and destructive existence. — Kilroy J. Oldster

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely. — Willard Gaylin

The deeper we get into reality, the more numerous will be the questions we cannot answer. — Friedrich Von Hugel

If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple. — Russell Simmons

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown. — William Henry Harrison

I do not give up,
I never give up,
For there is nothing
In this entire world
That is irrevocably unchangeable. — Sri Chinmoy

The cost of living keeps going up, although death is surprisingly affordable. — Stephen Colbert

We're damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet. — Evanna Lynch