Skip Yowell Quotes

#1. The point is that if the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it.

Ernest Becker

#2. Find something to believe in, Carter, other than your work. Because when you leave this life, you leave work behind. If that's all you have, then you have nothing. And eternity is a long time for nothing.

David Baldacci

#3. The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy ... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.

Dennis Kucinich

#4. It'd been a long time since they'd been together, but as close as they were physically, they'd never been so far apart in every other way.

Jennifer Faye

#5. I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.

Nikki Giovanni

#6. I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

Adam Clarke

#7. Watch for the high tides of yourself and flow up with them; when the inevitable low tides come, either rest or meditate. You cannot escape rhythm. You transcend it by working with it.

Elsa Barker

#8. As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

Charlie Kaufman

#9. It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted happening, getting the attention for it and then not knowing how to handle it properly.

Samaire Armstrong

#10. What is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals?

Michael Gerber

#11. She's too hot, even for you. And since she's got a book, she probably knows how to read, so she's smart enough to know to avoid guys like you.

Nicole Williams

#12. I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

William Faulkner

#13. If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.

Fernando Pessoa

#14. The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds true: make good decisions and you'll succeed; make bad ones and you'll fail.

Garry Kasparov

#15. It doesn't seem to matter what we think ... The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.

Shannon Hale