Valuble Quotes & Sayings

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle. — H.L. Mencken

I was in a band till I was about 17; then I went to television, and I spent seven years doing that. When I came to Seattle, I started to audition for things. The passion's always there, and that's what's been the hard thing: to fit that passion into a normal life. You can't do it. You can't have a normal life and pursue this dream. — Paul Eenhoorn

Owing your style sometimes takes effort, and it's okay to expend effort on how you look — Sophia Amoruso

Reality is never a golden age. — Joan Robinson

Here," Trey says, fumbling for his cell phone on the bedside table. "You should call me.
Ben turns and looks at him, a small smile still playing around his lips. "Oh, should I? What's your number?"
Trey tells him, and Ben enters it into is phone, and then he takes Trey's and enters his number. "Okay," Ben says a little cautiously, "well, we'd love to have you come for a meeting. Are you seriously considering U of C? Even after what happened?"
"Oh yeah. I totally am. "What's your name again?"
Ben laughs and tells him.
I frown. Trey knows U of C is a private school. Mucho big bucks. But hey ... there's always the power of morphine to make you forget about the minor details of your life, like living above a restaurant that struggles monthly to pay bills, and considering returning to the place where some lunatic outsider came in and fucking shot you because you're gay. — Lisa McMann

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me. — Martin Parr

Because of those last moments with Billy, the very idea of my hands wrapped in someone else's has plagued me, making my heart stop, my stomach drop, my vision blurry, my muscles spasm, and sweat pour down my back all at once. Until now. — K.A. Tucker

When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph. — Abbas Kiarostami

Most men think they are good drivers. Most women think they are good in bed. They aren't. — Jonathan Carroll

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain. — David Whyte

Perpetual peace is a futile dream. — George S. Patton

I never learned to read girls. I guess I'm girl-illiterate. — Robert Schell

There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on the planet today. It's not just children who are looking for a missing piece. It is a very mature outlook to question the nature of our reality. — Marianne Williamson