D. M. Street Quotes
It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.
Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time.
I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.
Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to.
The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.
Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.
Follow your dreams as long as you live! Never be afraid to go out on the limb to live up to your expectations. Always do things your way and Have Fun!
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.
Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.
I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.
It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.
Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.
When people start liking people, that’s when someone has the ability to get hurt.
Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.
There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.
Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.
It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.
Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth.
Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.
I hate reality shows like Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity. I'd rather watch a goldfish bowl.
But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.
The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.
I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock.
I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.
When you're jumping so high for something so far up in the sky, you have to know that there is definitely someone there who can catch you, someone who knows how to catch you and when.
Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now.
I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.
My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone.
I'm looking forward to free skiing the most. Just groomers, big wide groomers making nice big turns.
Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.
Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.
Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko
The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.
Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.