Shemer Quotes

#1. Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence.

Wyndham Lewis

#2. Let go and get back much more

Doobie Shemer

#3. TODAY, I can choose what affects me, to not be afraid, to not let this break-up depress me, to look at mistakes as learning experiences, to be happy, to feel loved, TODAY I can choose ...

Doobie Shemer

#4. When I went kayak surfing in Cornwall, I got a really deep gash on my hand - it looked like I had a slug on it - so I went to Harley Street for surgery, because I looked like a battered woman when I was making things on Blue Peter.

Konnie Huq

#5. My brother acquired his first gun when he was very young, from a recently-fled drug dealer's residence. Now, he lived in a rural orange-grove area, and he shot at coyotes who killed his animals and at drug runners who used the groves for transport. Sometimes he joked that he only shot what moved.

Susan Straight

#6. There is hope in our wanting to be something better, even if we never manage it. Maybe that is what I can hold to. The wanting.

Eowyn Ivey

#7. Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?

J.K. Rowling

#8. It is a cold and harrowing morning in the life of a man the day he wakes up, looks at himself in the mirror, and finally realizes that he is not, never has been, nor will ever be George Clooney.

Ted Heller

#9. 1975 was a great year for rock and roll, and don't believe anyone who tells you different.

Frank Portman

#10. The drive was brief and the conversation limited, but oh, what a legacy of love! Father never read to me from the Bible about the good Samaritan. Rather, he took me with him and Uncle Elias in that old 1928 Oldsmobile and provided a living lesson I have always remembered.

Thomas S. Monson

#11. Fear of darkness reinforces darkness. Acceptance and kindness magnify brightness.

Doobie Shemer

#12. Be alone and love it. Be lonely and hate it. The first will empower you; the later will destroy you. Become your own best friend and never be lonely again.

Doobie Shemer

#13. I've always been about less government.

Kelly Clarkson

#14. So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.

John Irving

#15. I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. Nourish yourself so you can feed others.

Doobie Shemer

#17. What happens when an essayist starts imagining things, making things up, filling in blank spaces, or - worse yet - leaving the blanks blank?

John D'Agata

#18. When I fall in love I take my time
There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind
You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why.

Jason Mraz