Where The Heart Is Billie Letts Quotes & Sayings

I don't think anybody ever makes any money buying and selling stock. They have to make money by keeping the stock. — Donald Sultan

The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances — Stephen R. Covey

I used to be afraid of the dark. But sometimes, it's the best place to be. Sometimes you can see things in the dark that you can't see in the light. — Billie Letts

The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person ... Our task is ... the sharing of intense faith and experience. — Halford Luccock

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. — Benjamin Jowett

What's it like to fall in love, Tessie?" I asked.
She gazed into the darkness for a long moment, then her smile widened. "Well, when you see that certain man you heart flies like paper on the wind
don't matter if you just see him one minute ago or one year ago. When you with him, ain't nothing or nobody else in the whole world but him. You might be walking down the same old street you walk on every day, but if you with him, your feet don't hardly touch the ground anymore, like you just floating on a little cloud. And, honey, you want his arms to be around you more than you want air to breathe. — Lynn Austin

Bond liked fast cars and he liked driving them. Most American cars bored him ... All the fun of driving had been taken out of them with the abolition of a gear-change ... All effort had been smoothed away and all of that close contact with the machine and the road that extracts skill and nerve from the European driver. — Ian Fleming

Conservatives often seem afraid of questions and liberals afraid of answers - which is even sillier, because that's like being afraid of food. Being afraid of questions is like being afraid of hunger. That's only cowardice. — Peter Kreeft

Women are pretty good. Women usually fight about some stupid guy and then when they figure out it's just a stupid guy they make up and move on. — Garry Marshall

Approach the present with your heart's consent. Make it a blessed event. — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

He is my jailor as much as Nathan. He, like Nathan, seems entitled to sample from my body - but offers nothing in return. — Alessandra Torre

And it did me no good to recall particular conversations (if indeed these were particular conversations I was remembering so vividly, rather than inventions of my uneasy brain). Remembering clarified nothing. — Emma Donoghue

Home is the place that'll catch you when you fall. And we all fall. — Billie Letts

So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead. — Seth Godin

I, Jesse Carter, am fucked. — River Savage

Sometimes my interest in working on a film is not always dictated specifically by the character. Sometimes it's simply about wanting to be a part of a vision that I love, or a script that I love. I find exciting and gratifying. — Elijah Wood