Fliegler Quotes

#1. Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.

John O'Hara

#2. Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model.

David Hockney

#3. In a lot of ways, having a teenager isn't all that different from having a newborn. You learn to read the reactions, because they're incapable of saying exactly what it is that's causing pain.

Jodi Picoult

#4. But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.

Tom Hanks

#5. If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.

John D. Rockefeller

#6. It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble.

John Marston

#7. What common people call beauty is essentially nature. The moment nature abandons you, your beauty is lost forever.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#8. Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.

Jan Morris

#9. Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon.

Edward Topsell

#10. The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.

Misty Copeland

#11. I'm not clumsy, I'm accident-prone!

Daniel Radcliffe

#12. The best players are always in the thick of the action. (Michael) Jordan did it with the Bulls, (Kobe) Bryant does it with the Lakers and Leo does it here. We want him to stay with us because he's the best and we wouldn't swap him for anyone.

Ronaldinho