Provisionally Sufficient Quotes

#1. You don't need to be special to be awesome. You just need to do the work.

Jason Ellis

#2. To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act ... It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.

Sharon Salzberg

#3. It is important to value the individual, to have good health, a loving family and good relationships, to have community ties, leisure pursuits. These are all part of our lives. It is important to keep all of our parts in working order.

Helen Lynch

#4. The Indian peasant is the world's champion shitter. Stacks of chappaties and mounds of mustard leaf-mash down the hatch twice a day; stacks of shit a.m. and p.m.

Khushwant Singh

#5. I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because we need readers of poetry as much as writers of poetry.

Edward Hirsch

#6. We never touch people so lightly that we do not leave a trace.

Peggy Tabor Millin

#7. That's what we do sometimes. We let people disappear. We want them to. If everyone just stays quiet and out of the way, then the rest of us can pretend everything's fine. But everything is not fine.

John Corey Whaley

#8. 'Law & Order' was so very interesting to me because what I got to do was explore New York along with getting to work with some of the best actors New York City had to offer.

Jesse L. Martin

#9. Fresca, or Diet Rite?" I asked. "I'll have a Fanta," she said.

Rachel Cohn

#10. Finch picked up one of the ancient fax-mags and brought it over to me.
"I don't need anything to read," I said. "I'll just sit here and eavesdrop along with you."
"I thought you might sit on the mag," he said. "It's extremely difficult to get soot out of chintz.

Connie Willis

#11. because I wanted to

Craig Johnson

#12. I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.

Enid Bagnold

#13. When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

Drake

#14. Acts of standing every trial without reversal is a sign of positiveness.

Sol Michael