Zack Grey Quotes & Sayings

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail. — Charlie Parker

I didn't see her die, but I did hear her one and only scream — Aharon Appelfeld

So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said. — Jonathan Franzen

Beware the man who has two faces and two hearts. — Moses Ibn Ezra

According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals
just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women. — Ana Castillo

When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read. — Sherman Alexie

I am nothing, truth is everything. — Abraham Lincoln

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me. — William Landay

You flambe one car and now you think every song with fire is about you," Logan says. "Get over yourself, Catalano. — Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in private. And there's also a strange loneliness, and a desire to have some kind of conversation with people, but not a real great ability to do it in person. — David Foster Wallace

Well you see, Brazilian JiuJitsu Blackbelts have a blackbelt in ... Brazilian JiuJitsu — Joe Rogan

Don't weep for me; don't write any sob stories. — Gertrude Ederle

The beautiful, affectionate man from earlier had vanished. This Zack I could imagine on the battlefield. — Sofia Grey

An absence of mistrust is not enough; there must be a weariness of mistrusting, and, as it were, courage must be impatient with the hazards of life. You are unconsciously bored by living without loving, and convinced in spite of yourself by the examples of others. You have overcome all life's fears, and are no longer content with the gloomy happiness which pride affords: you have conceived an ideal without knowing it. — Stendhal

Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of you because you're so distracted by your thoughts. — Frederick Lenz

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically. — Eric Clapton