Flickery Quotes

#1. And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full.

Ray Bradbury

#2. Well baby you know if she's you'res then you have to stand up and be there for her.

Rikenya Hunter

#3. I am a gay writer, but I am also a Scottish writer and some days a lazy writer, or a funny writer. Being gay is just a part of who I am.

Damian Barr

#4. Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.

Kim Wright

#5. Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?

Steve Toltz

#6. When my body and face were perfect as far as youth, I wasn't happy.

Jennifer Grey

#7. I see a funny guy who's imperfect, but has a great heart and no vanity when it comes to what he'll do to get a laugh. I see a guy who loves his art and loves his family, and who is willing to live and die for both.

Marlon Wayans

#8. I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.

Julian Baggini

#9. My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.

Thomas Kretschmann

#10. Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#11. Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.

Mason Cooley

#12. Freedom begins when each individual mind dares to liberate itself from the prison it created. We are free when the war in our heads is over.

Miguel Ruiz

#13. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

William Osler

#14. No family is ever what it seems from the outside.

Lady Violet