Gurnett Creek Quotes

#1. How bad does it have to be before you do something about it?

Amy Jenkins

#2. For me personally, I just try to prove myself in my work. I'm just trying to get better at what I do, and hopefully that will impact women in music, and hopefully the girls in the crowd will see my up there as a bandleader and think, 'Wow, maybe I can do that one day.'

Jenny Lewis

#3. I find peace when I'm confused, I find hope when I'm let down, not in me but in you.

Switchfoot

#4. He who commits his life to this son of man does not die, but he who does not commit his life to him destroys himself by not trusting to what is life itself Division (death) consists in this, that life came into the world, but men go away from that life.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.

Erma Bombeck

#6. I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.

Claire Messud

#7. I have zero strategy for my career - like, zero. I could get as much satisfaction about doing a $20,000 shot film the same way I could do a $100 million film with a bunch of effects.

Neill Blomkamp

#8. What do I have to do to earn and deserve the key relationships that are going to get me where I want to go?

David Maister

#9. He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we are as a species and what we're meant to be.

Christopher McDougall

#10. They were the lowest in the army, and yet they bore the weight of kings.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. Life hammers us all. Too many times we become things we never thought we'd be. For many reasons.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. For the New Testament authors, Jesus' resurrection is not an isolated miracle, but a crucial revelatory disclosure concerning the nature of reality, the identity of God, and the destiny of human beings.

Stefan Alkier

#13. Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ...

Muriel Rukeyser

#14. The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.

James Cook