Quotes About Frey

#1. It's time to stop pretending that you're somebody else. No, you can't change this world, but you can change yourself.

Glenn Frey

#2. I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

James Frey

#3. I often think of death.
True.
Suicide is a reasonable option.
True.
My sins are unpardonable.
I stare at the question.
My sins are unpardonable.
I stare at the question.
My sins are unpardonable.
I leave it blank.

James Frey

#4. I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

Glenn Frey

#5. That's how life works. You know it when you know it.
They're nineteen and in love. Alone except for each other. Jobless and homeless, looking for something, somewhere, anywhere here.
They're on a sixteen-line highway.
Driving west.

James Frey

#6. If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.

James Frey

#7. Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

James Frey

#8. If you're writing songs by yourself, who's going to tell you if it's good or not? But if you're writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback.

Glenn Frey

#9. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

James Frey

#10. I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. I speak everything, so if something sounds right I write it. It's more about sound and the rhythm of speech than written language.

James Frey

#11. Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.

James Frey

#12. Nothing's bigger than me!" Frey shouted back. "Me is all I've got.

Chris Wooding

#13. Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

Glenn Frey

#14. America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.

James Frey

#15. I think, living in America, we're so bombarded with God all the time that in certain ways I'm making statements against that bombardment, you know? I think it's crazy. I mean, I don't believe in God. I don't believe in anything. But I still think about it. And I still write about it.

James Frey

#16. Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

James Frey

#17. Learn to deal with that. It's the way of the world. You fight and struggle and work your ass off and then you die. Deal with that.

James Frey

#18. man, you have two helicopters. Uh, I guess it's too late to be asking this, but are you some kind of commando?" Frey laughed again and shook his head. "No, I own a gym.

Faith Gibson

#19. I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.

James Frey

#20. Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something

James Frey

#21. I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.

James Frey

#22. Love only brought me lonliness and horror.

James Frey

#23. Shouldn't he pick on more interesting heroes, like the children of Thor? At least their dad had a movie franchise. Frey didn't even have his own cats. He had to borrow his sister's.

Rick Riordan

#24. It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

Glenn Frey

#25. Falling apart in a 5K is painful, but it's just pain. Falling apart in a marathon, I believe you lose a year of your life. You complete the marathon feeling utterly defeated, knowing that it got the best of you, and you go home and ask your mom if she still loves you.

Jacob Frey

#26. I meet a third man he's an old man he trips in the street he falls and I help him up, walk him to the curb. He shakes my hand says keep the faith, young man. I ask him what he means, he says keep running and don't let them catch you.

James Frey

#27. The great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don't look nearly as old.

Glenn Frey

#28. I have moved on. I have moved forward.

Amber Frey

#29. Hey, a woman changed her mind - what else is new?

Glenn Frey

#30. I don't need a trumpet for you to know I'm coming. I simply arrive.

Z.E. Frey

#31. Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.

James Frey

#32. When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

Amber Frey

#33. Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

Glenn Frey

#34. He wasn't a loner, but he liked doing things his way. Compromise wasn't a priority for him.

Stephen W. Frey

#35. When I looked into the eyes of the people who knew Laci best, I saw something I didn't want to see: a group of people who desperately loved Laci, and who were beginning to suspect she wasn't coming home.

Amber Frey

#36. George Brett could get good wood on an aspirin.

Jim Frey

#37. Life is hard, kid. you gotta be harder. you gotta take it on and fight for it and be a fucking man about how you live it. if you're too much of a pussy to do that, then maybe you should leave, 'cause you're dead already

James Frey

#38. I want to run or die or get fucked up. I want to be blind and dumb and have no heart. I want to crawl in a hole and never come out. I want to wipe my existence straight off the map. Straight off the fucking map.

James Frey

#39. I pointed my eyes straight ahead too and muttered, "I'm sure I'll find something I can do." I felt Frey's eyes on me, kept mine aimed at the hall then I heard Frey sigh. "Indeed, you will and this terrifies me," he muttered back and that was when I allowed myself to giggle.

Kristen Ashley

#40. They live in cardbox encampments, tin shacks, they live in tents and sleeping bags, they live on the ground. They yell at each other, scream at each other, sleep with each other, do drugs and drink with each other, fuck each other, kill each other. They

James Frey

#41. I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.

James Frey

#42. What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.

James Frey

#43. Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.

Glenn Frey

#44. Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.

James Frey

#45. For some it is harder to
write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

James N. Frey

#46. If you're gonna cry, cry because of all the good times we had, and all the laughs, and all the fun shit we did, and cry because those memories make you happy.

James Frey

#47. When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.

James Frey

#48. Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

James Frey

#49. My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by brief moments of joy. And as is the case with all people's lives, the moments of joy are never often enough and never long enough.

James Frey

#50. There is one thing. One thing that haunts me from page one to page twenty-two. I have never spoken of it. I have never told another person

James Frey

#51. The way America works, and the way L.A. works, is a very small percentage of people get what they want out of life, and a much greater percentage try very very hard and they don't. That's just the way it is.

James Frey

#52. I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

James Frey

#53. Love and laughter and fucking make one's life better. Worship is just the passing of time.

James Frey

#54. Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.

James Frey

#55. Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less. (James Frey, pg.88)

James Frey

#56. I don't think anybody's had the confidence that we'd ever be able to make a dent in homelessness. We've just come to accept that we manage homelessness, that we try to make it less bad, but we never make it better.

John Carlos Frey

#57. I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.

James Frey

#58. When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.

James N. Frey

#59. But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.

James Frey

#60. Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.

James Frey

#61. I am happy and able because I allow myself to be happy.

James Frey

#62. Inspiration is born when our passion becomes greater than our fear.

Terri Frey Maxwell

#63. I wonder why they still love me and why I can't love them back and how two normal stable people could have created something like me, lived with something like me, and tolerated something like me.

James Frey

#64. I miss everything. I miss talking to her, hearing about her day. I miss her voice all gravelly and smoky, I miss hearing her laugh, I miss getting her letters, writing her letters. I miss her eyes, and the smell of her hair, and the way her breath tasted. I fucking miss everything.

James Frey

#65. Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.

James Frey

#66. Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

James Frey

#67. They say confront the difficult while it is easy, accomplish the great one step at a time. They say let things come and let things go and live without possession and live without expectation.

James Frey

#68. L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.

James Frey

#69. Some people, they just don't get a joke.

Glenn Frey

#70. Ragnarok is coming. When the sky splits asunder and the dark powers of Muspell march out on their war journey, Frey

Neil Gaiman

#71. It's the third book of the Bible, called The Final Testament of the Holy Bible.My idea of what the Messiah would be like if he were walking the streets of New York today. What would he believe? What would he preach? How would he live? With who?

James Frey

#72. I look at pastries and cakes, tarts and pies. My body craves sugar, always craves sugar. Years of alcohalism and the high level of sugar in alcohal created the craving, which I feed with candy and soda.

James Frey

#73. Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.

James Frey

#74. It could have been me. And just the hope and prayers that, you know, if, if the shoes were switched, that you know, Laci would do the same thing for me.

Amber Frey

#75. We got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love.

James Frey

#76. I tell him, "Attaway to hit, George."

Jim Frey

#77. For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death.

James Frey

#78. But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's jealousy, for some it's torture, for some it's peace. For some it's everything.

James Frey

#79. To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

James Frey

#80. A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen from over ten thousand entries, was the Los Angeles Convention Center.

James Frey

#81. So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.

George R R Martin

#82. I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

James Frey

#83. I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.

Glenn Frey

#84. What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

James Frey

#85. Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.

James Frey

#86. Whether they are accepted or not isn't important. What is important is the act of apologizing, the act of admitting fault, the act of asking for forgiveness.

James Frey

#87. The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

James Frey

#88. You alright?' Frey asked him. Crake gave him an accusing glare. 'I thought I'd given up all dignity long ago when I joined this crew,' he said. 'But this? This is a new low, Frey.'
'It's character-building,' said Frey.

Chris Wooding

#89. In 1970, a superior Court judge issues an order forcing the desegregation of Los Angeles schools. The judge survives an assassination attempt and loses his job in the next election.

James Frey

#90. She feels and she cries. It is to be admired.

James Frey

#91. Expect nothing of Walder Frey, and you will never be surprised.

George R R Martin

#92. She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis.

James Frey

#93. When Frey asked students to draw the creation, the other kids drew animals and Adam and Eve. Caroline covered her paper in black crayon, then held it up to reveal she had punched out holes for the stars and the moon. 'And then there was light', she said ...

Christopher Andersen

#94. Faith is the fool's excuse.

James Frey

#95. Because I'll never be any better. I'll never be any more normal and I'll never make the pain go away. Never ever ever.

James Frey

#96. Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests.
Why?
You tell me.
I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it.

James Frey

#97. Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few weeks.

Amber Frey

#98. There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.

Glenn Frey

#99. The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all.

James Frey

#100. I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.

Glenn Frey