Al Purdy Quotes

Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.

Rhinos are just fat unicorns. If we'd give them the time and attention they deserve, as well as a diet: They'd reveal their majestic ways

Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.

Touch it gently, put two fingers inside, make sure it's wet & rub up & down. Yep that's how you wash a cup!

It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.

Being called weird is like being called Limited Edition. Meaning youre something people dont see that often.

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

Kiss an angel good morning and love her like the devil when you get back home.

Life is good, life is great. Always love and never hate. Break the rules, stand apart. Ignore your head and follow your heart.

Drop Pants, Not Bombs. Break Dance, Not Hearts. Draft Beer, Not People. Make LOVE, Not WAR.

I put my phone on airplane mode and it didn't fly Worst. Transformer. Ever.

Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.

Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: (1) stop us in our tracks, or (2) force us to get creative.

You gotta believe you can accomplish anything, and those who believe that they can accomplish anything, most likely will.

Alchohol doesn't make you fat...it make you Lean...on tables, chairs & random people!!!

A cup at Starbucks isn't really that expensive when you consider what Victoria's Secret charges per cup.

Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration

A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.

If you cross a pickle with a female deer...You get a dill-doe!

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

I'm a hard man to fight and an easy man to please... A Rock n' Roll Outlaw on a Sweet Romance.. I Want To Be Your Man.

We all have disabilities. Just some are more visible than others. We all have challenges, we all have obstacles

When we embrace the things that make us unique, our true and remarkable capabilities are revealed

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.

Breathe. It's only a bad day not a bad life.

If you want to make something happen in your life or career, well then you make and find the time. Simple as that.

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf

What is up with this Ashley Purdy day tomorrow,I see? Do I need to dress up as myself?!

The biggest reward is seeing via social media people sending me pictures back with excitement of what they bought from my fashion line. I ReTweet most everyone i see who tweets a photo.

I never look at failing as an option anyhow. I believe thinking you could fail is already shooting yourself in the foot and setting yourself up for failure.

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.

As I matured, I've always had the dream of one day either having my own clothing line or owning a fashion magazine. Most of my thesis' and projects in school were fashion and advertising based.

In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.

My collections are a reflection of my personal style and interests. All the textiles, fabrics and patterns are of my personal choice.

My main intention was to not only create collections that defined myself and style, but to also create things that my fans identify with me and feel a belonging to.

We live as if we know how everything will turn out. I certainly lived that way. But we don't know anything. Really, we don't.

It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

I don't think I do have a soul.

For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West.

I think America, really, is over.

I love the city and the people of Munich. I have many great friends there.

Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.

I play defense and I'm a unique defender because I'm tall and slim but I also have great speed.

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.