Parotids Are Swollen Quotes

#1. Who am I? Or possibly, who AM I? Make it who I WAS, because once I was somebody.

Dorothy Baker

#2. I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.

Allison Tolman

#3. I do not concern myself with being unique, and I do not concern myself with success. I feel I just do and say what I am supposed to. I do not know where it comes from. I go where I am told, and I just allow whatever it is to come out.

Wayne Dyer

#4. We ... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.

Sherry Turkle

#5. If your clients aren't actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn't as great as you think it is.

David Maister

#6. I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

Carl Sandburg

#7. I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

David Antin

#8. The difference between me and most Protestants is most Protestants have no problem at all saying 'The Lord told me this' or 'The Lord told me that,' but they won't believe that the Lord speaks through the pope. You know, at least this guy has some credentials.

Rich Mullins

#9. He asked that God remember those who had died and he asked that the living gathered together here remember that the corn grows by the will of God and beyond that will there is neither corn nor growing nor light nor air nor rain nor anything at all save only darkness. Then they ate.

Cormac McCarthy

#10. I'm thinking of you a lot, in the mornings, in the afternoons, in the evenings, at night, in the periods in between and just before and after - and also during.

Daniel Glattauer

#11. Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop the experience, to step outside it.

Geoffrey Wood

#12. The poetics of politics had to be observed.

Tom Clancy

#13. Impossible to know. The thing is, you take a fork in the road, it doesn't always work out for the better . . . but sometimes it does. It must.

John Sandford

#14. The piggies were not to be disturbed-

Orson Scott Card