Volish Quotes & Sayings

If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream. — J.G. Ballard

Don't believe everything you hear, don't believe everything you read and only believe half of what you see — DMX

In our minds, rich is always the other person, the other family. Rich is having more than you currently have. If that is the case, you can be rich and not feel it. You can be rich and not know it. — Andy Stanley

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love. (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion) — Jane Austen

Normal was in the eye of the beholder, and sometimes the path to happiness involved bushwhacking and slicing and carving it until it yielded to individual desires. It wasn't simple, and there was no getting through it unscathed from the bleeding prick of thorns along the way. — Darien Cox

Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them. — Aristotle.

Don't stereotype, Jenks. HAPA is an equal-opportunity hate group, I said. — Kim Harrison

I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about. — Stacy Keach

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values. — Al Sharpton

I don't travel in circles where people say, 'I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith.' That's just a long-winded religious way to say, 'Shut up. — Penn Jillette

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything. — Alice Hoffman

If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem. — Jeph Jacques