Wagamese Richard Quotes

#1. What is there in common between life and chemistry; between good and evil and electrical charges, between a collection of cells and the consciousness of a caress?

Aldous Huxley

#2. I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.

T. J. Miller

#3. Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same.

Gore Vidal

#4. I understood then that when you miss a thing it leaves a hole that only the thing you miss can fill.

Richard Wagamese

#5. A single-continent world would be expected to contain only about a third as many mammalian species as currently exist.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#6. OUT TODAY - THE NEW POCKET BOOK THAT MAY REVOLUTIONIZE AMERICA'S READING HABITS' (from a 1939 Pocket Book advertisement)

Woody Haut

#7. If you are not hungry for success, you will not make the best use of your time. It is simple and clear. People who are truly hungry for food never play with a meal when they see it.

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are.

Richard Wagamese

#9. She only nodded. It's all we are in the end. Our stories.

Richard Wagamese

#10. He held his hand up to his face and licked the wound. Blood. Old-tasting and rich like the sediment of a river. He looked at Jimmy. The blood on their faces meant they were part of the same stream now, bobbing in the current, borne forward effortlessly under the slowly twirling dome of the sky.

Richard Wagamese

#11. You're crackers."
"Marvelous isn't it? I find it's the only way to be.

Paul Magrs

#12. Be cruel to me , cause I'm a fool for you.

Alex Turner

#13. The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say.
Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway

Richard Wagamese

#14. That's what's important really, Keeper says. Learning how to be what the Creator created you to be. Face your truth.

Richard Wagamese

#15. You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.

Jenny Lawson

#16. We become eternal by being held in memory's loving arms.

Richard Wagamese

#17. At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.

Erica Jong

#18. There was a feeling in him like waiting for a punishment.

Richard Wagamese

#19. I gave them nothing back because all I knew was the vast amount they had taken from me, robbed me of, cheated me out of, all in the name of a God whose son bore the long hair none of us were allowed to wear any more.

Richard Wagamese

#20. There are religions in which the representation of the world is banned as an usurpation of the power of a God, creator of all things. It is very possible that photography is a trick of the devil and each shot is a sin.

Joan Fontcuberta

#21. They scooped out our insides, Saul. We're not responsible for that. We're not responsible for what happened to us. None of us are. Fred said. But our healing
that's up to us. That's what saved me. Knowing it was my game.

Richard Wagamese

#22. For my wife Deborah, for allowing me to bask in her light and become more.

Richard Wagamese

#23. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people, they kept on blooming like little children and playing like dogs.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez