Mary Gordon Quotes
I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.
Mary Gordon
Quotes to Explore
More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
Harlan Coben
When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
Malorie Blackman
Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
Laura Miller
Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
Omar Dorsey
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Napoleon Hill
Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
Malorie Blackman
I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
Damian Lewis
I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
J Mascis
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
S. Jay Olshansky
There are no rules to writing a song.
Randy Castillo
Mötley Crüe
Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
Fidel Castro
No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.
Barry O'Farrell
I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
W. G. Sebald
Life is one long jubilee.
Ira Gershwin
My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
Waris Ahluwalia
I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.
Rafael dos Anjos
The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.
Garth Risk Hallberg
Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive, that is why we feel so alive when we love. Service is being available to love. Life is the combustion of love. That we love ourselves here, that is the true magnificence in the mountains of being.
Alex Grey
