E. L. Simpson Quotes

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.

Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.

I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life.

Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

He was a man too busy to flush toilets.

In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.

Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work.

I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

Thinking ... is what gets you caught from behind.

There is no principle involved in my holdout. Only money.

NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.

Apart from golf, it was a great week.

He's firmly, irrevocably, unambiguously convinced that you're somebody worth dying for.

You can make a difference in another person's life and not realize it, just by giving them One Moment of your time, One Memory to recall, One Motion that tells them they are not alone! OM!

Frequently we do not leave the past behind. We clasp on to it. We dissect it, and let fears for the future, tempered by the past, unconsciously prevent us from taking up the task eternal.

Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.

Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.

The proliferation of creative power can transform the world for all of its inhabitants.

He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap.

Trying is the first step to failure

If someone is determined to kill himself, nothing will stop him.

Trying is the first step towards failure

I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Weird, strange, sick, twisted, eerie, godless, evil stuff… and I want in..

What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!

Language itself is a major resource in the naming of what cannot be named

I would rather live a life alone, than live a life built on lies, deceit and manipulation".

I would rather live a life alone, than live a life based on lies, deceit and manipulation

I see myself as an instrument of justice, not a dispenser of it."-Detective Thanet.

Part of what makes him (laid-back Tim Hudson)an ace is that he would never acknowledge that he is an ace.

If you have never truly questioned what you believe, I would question whether you truly believe it.

The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.

Why don't those stupid idiots let me in their crappy club for jerks?

But would I have chosen to be Paul? I'd miss Will too much, the feel of his shins.

Do what you love, especially if your sharing the word

You can pipe anything to anything else, and usually it'll do something. With most of the standard Linux tools, it'll even do what you expect.

Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person's property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.

These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge and each marked off by some intense experience.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle but to make them long for it.

Humor is my sword and my shield. It protects me. You can open a door with humor and drive a truck right through.

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a perennial loser.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin it should make you jump up and do something.

Pray always pray when sickness wastes thy frame Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.

Help me to work and pray Help me to live each day That all I do may say Thy kingdom come.

Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose."

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself the day you stop making excuses that's the day you start your move to the top.

I love watching people's dreams come true.

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

I'm really interested in the current tech world because of my brother Michael. Since we were little kids, in the 1970s, he was dealing with the first computers. He works for the government.

Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road.