Henry Cecil Quotes

#1. A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.

Joan Wickersham

#2. You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful ... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

Mary Lou Retton

#3. To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

Pablo Picasso

#4. Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect is analogous to what the abolition of slavery achieved in affirming the worth of the individual human being.

Gilbert Simondon

#5. I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

Anne Lamott

#6. Very often God's will for you will be "I want you to decide," because decision making is an indispensable part of character formation. God is primarily in the character-forming business, not the circumstance-shaping business.

John Ortberg

#7. I might have remembered what my father once wrote to Henry George, I never do anything by halves, and am half hearted in no cause that I embrace.

Cecil B. DeMille

#8. Sleep was out there somewhere over the curve of the earth.

Don DeLillo

#9. I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.

Kevin Keegan

#10. When I started at 9, I was working with plaster. I worked with a florist. It was a little illegal for kids to work. They would give you tips because they couldn't really give you wages.

Riccardo Tisci

#11. I'd rather get eaten by an epileptic shark.

Lilith Saintcrow

#12. My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.

Geoffrey Canada

#13. Well, darkness with humor ... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

Peter Steele