Jimmy Mcelroy Quotes

#1. People appeared enormously foolish to him. He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids.

David Guterson

#2. It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast.

John Huston

#3. In 1970, at the age of 14, I entered a short story contest offering a grand prize of one dollar. I won. This was my first foray into writing fiction. I loved reading and thought that it shouldn't be so hard to write a story.

David Bergen

#4. Does talking to yourself in the voice of your fictional character count as being social?

Michelle M. Pillow

#5. When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.

Jaggi Vasudev

#6. The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.

H.W. Brands

#7. A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected ... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

Kara Walker

#8. If my feet ever left the ground, my mother would soon put them back down.

Douglas Booth

#9. Time is redeemed when you make the most of your life by fulfilling God's purposes.

Elizabeth George

#10. I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#11. Developing the cognitive control that leads to a more contemplative Christian life is the key to living as free men and women in post-Christian America. The man whose desires are under the control of his reason is free. The man who does whatever occurs to him is a slave. Untold

Rod Dreher