L. Quick Quotes

When I run, I always pretend I am running toward Nikki, and it makes me feel like I am decreasing the amount of time I have to wait until I see her again.

I can be a very valuable friend to you, but you do not want me as an enemy.

What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things?

Its always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, Ive been lucky with the things Ive been asked to do.

[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

I'm an actress, not a celebrity.

You may exist inthis world--but I exist tooand I will not yield

Physical strength doesn't mean a damn thing when you're all cut up and bleeding inside.

Your book goes places you may never go and helps people you may never meet

Silence has always been my default mode—my best defense against the rest of the world.

I'm starved." -Juli"How can you be starved? You just ate a huge bowl of popcorn." -Elspeth"Popcorn isn't food, it's popcorn." -Vicki

I am not weak and can control my mind really well".

... Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with ... Mr. G might not seem evil, but I fear him more than any other human being.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

If you can't take care of yourself, you can't take care of someone else.

It is not good for the spirits to dwell on that which cannot be altered.

Of course I began to see Nikki, which was strange because I was staring into Danny's eyes, and Danny is a six-foot-three black man who looks nothing like my ex-wife.

Real life often ends badly, like our marriage did, Pat. And literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for people to endure nobly.

She fastened the invisible corset of her composure snugly around herself and prepared to move forward with her plan.

I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.

You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life

Air goes in and outof my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heartbrain - and so I am

You don't have the right to complain about your life if you're not willing to change it

A guilty conscience is jealousy's playground.

Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that shit.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

Good looks are not something you earn. But as you get older, how you look is a reflection of the life you've led.

I am crushed by your poor opinionBut will endeavor to carry on.

Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.

Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy tale?

When we think a thought enough times it becomes a belief and that belief becomes a pattern which, in turn, becomes how we live our lives.

It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

Talent is useful, but always keep your dagger sharp.

it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end

I believe in happy endings, and i feel this movie has advanced long enough.

Nobody knows anything when they are in their midtwenties.

Remember – it's a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end.

We really don't get to understand /why/ most of the time. It's true.

I knew that I had reached the end of childhood once I realized that adults in my life didn't know anymore than I did.

Good teaching gains its authority from having consistent and repeated support from multiple scriptural sources, and it builds a firm base for our unity and our confidence in Christ.

PS. Docendo discimus. (Latin. By teaching, we learn.)

We're celebrating our freedom. We're celebrating our ability to be kids when everything is trying to take that away from us. It's a choice, Ty. We can do whatever we want.

I’m a screwed-up person who no longerknows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter.