Amber Frey Quotes

I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end.

Amber Frey

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• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Town

• Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Father
  • Hand
  • Sometimes

• I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Believe
  • Hard
  • I Believe

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

  

  Ovid
  • Oil
  • Clean
  • Bright

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Career
  • You
  • Vision

• One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Children

• I know not whether Laws be right,Or whether Laws be wrong;All that we know who lie in gaolIs that the wall is strong;And that each day is like a year,A year whose days are long.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Strong
  • Know
  • Right

• Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Stress

• Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing

• Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Children
  • Marketing

• I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Up
  • Great

• People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

  

  James Daly
  • People
  • Success

• Since truffle oil and caviar aren't always in the budget, learning to tweak and enhance just a few ingredients and flavor combinations can help you transform those ordinary ingredients into the extraordinary!

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Help
  • Learning

• Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Food

• We need one America - one that includes housing, education, jobs, access to capital, and economic inclusion for every American. This will create a stronger America.

  

  Byron Allen
  • American
  • America
  • Education

• Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

  

  David Morrissey
  • Planning

• ... because he was going to marry her. “It is customary to ask,” she now said as she turned to watch him button up a black shirt over that chest she’d licked and sucked and kissed not long ago. “Why?” He shrugged. “I’m not giving you a choice.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Up
  • Long
  • She

• Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Experience
  • Change
  • inspirational

• Many a crown shines spotless nowThat yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Winning

• The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Journey
  • Search
  • Cells

• True love's the gift which God has givenTo man alone beneath the heaven:It is not fantasy's hot fire,Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;It liveth not in fierce desire,With dead desire it doth not die;It is the secret sympathy,The silver link, the silken tie,Which heart to heart, and mind to mindIn body and in soul can bind.

  

  Walter Scott
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end.

  

  Amber Frey
  • God
  • Chose
  • Ordeal