Zossima Press Quotes

#1. Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#2. We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Friedrich Koenig

#3. An arrow isn't the only thing I shoot straight. If you ever come near my wife, you'll be hauled off in a body bag.

Lucy McConnell

#4. As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.

Kevin Kwan

#5. Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.

Mariama Ba

#6. Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

Carine Roitfeld

#7. Having a beard is a good way to make your face more susceptible to velcro.

Demetri Martin

#8. The problem with people like me who are emotionally unhinged is that we think with a tsunami of bad experiences flooding our brains. We think with insecurity, and raging pain, all triggered by what has come before. We see threats to us personally lurking around corners, curves, and right angles.

Cathy Lamb

#9. Turning pro is like kicking a drug habit or stopping drinking. It's a decision, a decision to which we must re-commit every day.

Steven Pressfield