Clara Mayer Quotes

#1. How does one conquer fear, Don B.?" "One takes a frog and sews it to one's shoe," he said. "The left or the right?" Don B. gave me a pitying look. "Well, you'd look mighty funny going down the street with only one frog sewed to your shoes, wouldn't you?" he said. "One frog on each shoe.

Donald Barthelme

#2. No mom has it all together. We're all dealing with loose ends when it comes to motherhood and our children. Some of us are just better at keeping up appearances, that's all.

Julie Ann Barnhill

#3. The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

Francis Bacon

#4. For a few precious moments ... I am back in Old Texas, under a high sky ... where all things are again possible ... and the wind blows free.

Larry L. King

#5. I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

Chaim Potok

#6. The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'

Yael Grobglas

#8. If you're the best that the Earth has got to offer, it's time we bend over and get a tentacle right up the ass.

John Scalzi

#9. Forgiveness is the oil that love cooks in.

Ron Moore

#10. But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#11. He wasn't a man, but a tape recorder, repeating catch phrases and old slogans without any thought to the concepts behind them, a dog stuck in the training of his youth and faithfully executing his tasks long after his master had moved on.

Harvey Pekar