K. Taylor Quotes
Even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself.
Fear is a serviceable tool, I suppose. Like the stalls in a battery farm. If you want to keep people from their collective strength, make them too afraid of each other to ever meet or talk.
Allow the fear to keep you sensible but not to keep you still. If you're afraid of the dark then open your eyes, see that you are home.
People want things to be complicated, but they have to love themselves first and then each other and then it will seed everywhere
It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.
Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream! I turn from you, and listen to the wind.
I may never be rich or famous but I've created a whole world, where anything I want is possible what more could anyone want to achieve?
Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.
I'm so lucky to have a family, adopted or not! I'm so lucky to be alive!" Judy Ellis Taylor tells her three school-age girls.... They roll their eyes.
He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.
My life had become a puzzle - its pieces scattered about like paper in the wind, with no one there to chase them but me.
Why have I spent so long settling for less when I know damn well the world expects more?
Towards these weeks of rain I give effusive praise. Let me always be reminded that there is time for change.
It is bodies that make us real. What is a soul without eyes to look through or hands to hold?
Progress has a steep price. Success has an even steeper price. Your team won't be willing to pay it if you aren't willing to pay it.
Standards are not established by your proclamations they are established by your routines.
The key difference between captain and coach? The latter’s opportunities for influence come at moments when play isn't happening,
Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some ..." Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal
that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith
He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.
What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?
He drifted about with his head full of myths, always at least half lost in some otherland of story. Demons and wingsmiths, seraphim and spirits, he love it all.
People who read too many books get quirky. We can't have too much eccentricity or it would bankrupt us. Market research depends on people behaving as if they were all alike.
...but there was never enough time to read. The great irony of working in a library.
Grandmother's knee is a wonderful place to learn about the Bible, ghosts, and even Santa Claus, but a mighty poor place to learn about history.
Anything exceptional gets crushed by common people with jealousy and ignorance and all their common evils.
It was the hate of the used and tormented, who are the children of the used and tormented, and whose own children will be used and tormented.
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
Life and peace. Victory and vengeance.And never the twain shall meet.
When you dig just the tiniest bit beneath the surface, everyone's love life is original and interesting and nuanced and defies any easy definition.
Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.
Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.
What's the rush, honey? We have all the time in the world.
Sabrina: “But you don’t believe in marriage.”Linus: “Yes, I do. It’s why I’ve never married.
I am living in world full of lost hope and discrimination. I am living a life in which social equality does not exist and I am not sure that it ever can, or if once upon a time it ever did.
My skin is beautiful but it also serves as a huge barrier for so many opportunities that I want to pursue in life.
It’s unfortunate really—how everyone can live on the same soil yet not even know the first thing about their neighbors.
Differences simply act as a yarn of curiosity unraveling until we get to the other side.
In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside.
remember, it's not what one wears or has in one's pocketrather it's what's in the heart andthe kindness that brings forth..LT
When you’re dying, even your unhappiest memories can induce a sort of fondness, as if delight is not confined to the good times, but is woven through your days like a skein of gold thread.
You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable, " she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."“Beautiful and full of monsters?"“All the best stories are.