Good Lord Bird Quotes

#1. I would love the chance to ask follow-up questions of Susan Rice because David Gregory apparently did not avail himself of that opportunity. Greta, I just listened to the clip - I get tougher questions in the Bojangles drive-through than he asked her.

Trey Gowdy

#2. The more forcibly I'm made aware of the fact that I'll never be the kind of storyteller I most admire, the less I'll be troubled by that. I'll probably just become more myself.

Helen Oyeyemi

#3. God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.

James McBride

#4. You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do it under the compulsion that makes any artist the victim he is, but they loathe the process of sitting down trying to turn thoughts into reasonable sentences.

Harper Lee

#5. I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Larry Bird

#6. We all got to die," she said. "But dying as your true self is always better. God'll take you however you come to Him. But it's easier on a soul to come to Him clean. You're forever free that way. From top to bottom.

James McBride

#7. Some things in this world just ain't mean to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.

James McBride

#8. Michelle Obama - they don't call her Mooch-elle for nothing.

Howie Carr

#9. A body can't prosper if a person don't know who they are. That makes you poor as a pea, not knowing who you are inside. That's worse than being anything in the world on the outside.

James McBride

#10. The soul is a living, dynamic part of each person. It exists as consciousness and therefore must be found in consciousness.

Deepak Chopra

#11. And so with that spirit of confidence in our step and with that prayer in our heart, let us now quicken our pace to the victory that awaits us!

Perry Christie

#12. I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

James McBride

#13. After a moment's consideration, I decided lounging was probably similar to relaxing, but with more money in your pocket. Restless,

Patrick Rothfuss