Younger Diana Trout Quotes

#1. But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me - I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough.

Dexter Palmer

#2. In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don't care about them or don't like them.

Pat Summitt

#3. I am a lover of love and I am a lover of words, and the two together spin visions of airy castles, but also may pierce the heart of hope. And so I remind you that I am a fool, a poet, and what matters is reality, not lovely words. Words are full of promise, yet empty of matter.

Waylon H. Lewis

#4. Ducking, weaving, bouncing away from the knockout blow which must inevitably come.

Ray Bradbury

#5. BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. A government that trusts its people is powerful only if the people also trust their government. A government that does not trust its people is only powerful if it knows exactly what everyone is doing at all times.

Chris Dietzel

#7. It's important to stand up for your work, otherwise somebody else will step in and say they did it.

Jerry Bruckheimer

#8. A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.

Vivienne Westwood

#9. I like things that look like mistakes.

Greta Gerwig

#10. Sunlight is bad,' he wheezes. 'It's the exact same stuff as breeds maggots in wounded soldiers' legs. And when there's no war on, it fades wallpaper.

Michel Faber