Florinda Donner Quotes

#1. I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

Jami Attenberg

#2. Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every bit as good as Arthur Miller or Eugene O'Neill or anyone. It's that fifth word where amateurs start to go wrong.

Meredith Willson

#3. It takes years for average persons in the nagual's world to remove themselves from their involvement with themselves and be capable of seeing the wonder of it all.

Florinda Donner

#4. If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Tom Brady

#5. Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.

Florinda Donner

#6. I remember, when I was a kid, listening to the radio and hearing 'Big Bad John' by Jimmy Dean - and it just blew me away. I used to sit there and call the radio stations and request that song. And then the Beatles were obviously out already, but I really didn't know about the Beatles.

Nikki Sixx

#7. Books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.

Patricia Schroeder

#8. And the best way to quit being concerned with yourself is to be concerned about others.

Florinda Donner

#9. You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.

Itzhak Perlman

#10. That sometimes the smartest person in the room is the one who says, "I have no idea.

Gail Caldwell

#11. Death is your truest friend, and your most reliable adviser. If you have doubts about the course of your life, you have only to consult your death for the proper direction. Death will never lie to you.

Florinda Donner

#12. Freedom will cost you the mask you have on, the mask that feels so comfortable and is so hard to shed off, not because it fits so well but because you have been wearing it so long.

Florinda Donner

#13. In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of bones. - PABLO NERUDA

Mark Nepo

#14. But some of these theories are so bold that they can clash with reality: they are the testable theories of science. And when they clash, then we know that there is a reality; something that can inform us that our ideas are mistaken.

Karl Popper

#15. People who don't know me well enough might say I'm delusional and paranoid, but they're just out to get me.

Lance Carbuncle