Quotes By Famous Authors: [R]
We suck the pain from each other's lips until everything just blurs away
My wings are always black.
Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.
The thing about pumping people for information is that you wind up telling them more than you want to in the hope of getting them ...
Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.
You could not have done it better than Hughes.
To some people, the miraculous appears to be everyday. To others, every day is a miracle. Which person are you?
I don't preach or try to impress my views upon people.
The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much.
What happens to us is less important than what we make happen.
A different voice slid through the speakers now--his voice. The one that raised armies, toppled kingdoms. The one that sent the entire stadium into a ...
They'll want to know if I've written about them. Or, even as the title indicates with the names changed and such, they'll want to see ...
The primary responsibility of any pastor or preacher who desires revival in a Church is to see that all the members are led to genuine ...
God help me, what I wanted to do was to sweep her into my arms and clasp her to my manly bosom and pour words ...
The Great Way has no gate, there are thousands of paths to it. If you pass through the barrier, you walk the universe alone. Wu-men ...
I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.
There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.
She raised (all) spirits towards the hope of better times
If moral values amount to nothing but subjective phenomena of the human mind without independent meaning and existence - a position held by a variety ...
The only reason I'd lift my skirt is to pull out my pistol and plug you in the head.
How can ye find grace if ye give none?" ~ Andrew MacLeod ~ Life As A Lie
Running outdoors is to be in a sort of magical kingdom under whose spell I feel happiest.
Collaborative teams think of common formative assessments as academic scrimmages or dress rehearsals.
Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice.The Nature of Emotions (2001)
I am struggling to understand you.
There is one essential requirement for being close with a dying person: the letting go of self-concern.
The common damn'd shun their society.
All we truly know when we wake up in the morning is that we have the day in front of us to live.
Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is ...
I think, especially with my parents, I wanted to remember who they were. I wanted to remember all of it. I didn't want to purge ...
What you are, comes to you.
Desire is a powerful boat herding anchors and chains in the middle of the night.
Stephan always looked like a model, but he never needed more than ten minutes to get ready. I found it both convenient and infuriating, depending ...
Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a place just for children but lived, ...
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
The bar was manned, or should I say womanned by a skeletal heroin chic concentration camp survivor with an elaborate set of tattoos and an ...
I told you if you ever touched her again, I would kill you. Consider yourself dead.
When we look into the eyes of others with compassion, our personal biases suddenly begin to fade away. Then, we can see others for what ...
I want to see you at your worst. I want to see you all the time.
It really sucks to come in second in your own life. It sucks even more to think that this is okay.
(On Dickens) No other writer is quite as good at making marriage vows about remaining together "till death us do part" sound more like a ...
As former physicist Al Slawsky put it in the early 1990s, "It was a bad year for value investing. In my former life, there was ...
Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good ...
Miss Penelope THINKS I need beauty sleep?! Sorry, Brianna, but Miss Penelope CAN'T think. She doesn't have a BRAIN! She's a hand puppet!" I shot ...
I am not going to apologize for speaking the name of Jesus ... If I have to sacrifice everything ... I will.
Religion is simply a tool to put God's love into words and symbols. Doctrine is only useful to the extent it enhances your understanding of ...
Science fiction is literary fiction with the lid blown off
Remember Boogie Rule #6 (Don't watch local children boogie killer surf and say hey they can. do it , I can do it,) You like ...
There is all the difference in the world between treasure and money.
I really believe in the last name Hoffa being something powerful. You want to live your life to bring honor to that name.