Lilly Parker Quotes

#1. Diamonds are made under pressure - Lilly Parker

L.P. Lovell

#2. We're perfect. We're devastating in a way that only something that powerful can be. We're ruined. - Lilly Parker

L.P. Lovell

#3. The Lord who has given us power to teach and to hear, let Him also give us the power to serve and to do.

Martin Luther

#4. Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to dream. Could there be any more important job in life than that?

Felix J. Palma

#5. The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. They would probably search for him all over the zoo - the last place he'd been seen. He wondered if any evidence would implicate the hippo.

Brandon Mull

#7. Dying is easy; comedy is hard.

Donald Wolfit

#8. The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

Tacitus

#9. He said that the plane was too fast, that his body had arrived fast. That he was just ill because his soul could not keep pace with the speed of the plane and was still on its way home, and he would feel better once his soul had caught up.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#10. It's not what happens, it's how we handle what happens, that makes us who we are.

Carol Taylor

#11. Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant.

Frans De Waal

#12. At the concert I'm going to crown the best looking man, Mr. Tampa. Bald men definitely have an edge.

Christine Lavin

#13. I don't get involved with people because quite frankly most people aren't worth getting involved with. I don't need somebody to complete me, be the other half of me or any of that freaky shit.

L.P. Lovell

#14. People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.

Erica Jong

#15. Concentrate. Level the sight. Breathe in.
Ease the trigger. And relax?
BLAP! The can somersaulted across the sand.

Pride swelled till I thought I'd burst.
But my pride slipped at Dad's reality check.
Not bad. Pretty good, in fact. For a girl.

Ellen Hopkins

#16. The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

Andy Stern