R.X. Bird Quotes

The best things in life don't come in adult sizes.

Give your hero a strong simple reason that he or she has to solve the problem right now.

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.

I think Formula E truly has the potential to become the future of motorsport. Formula One is the past.

When the race to develop becomes more furious as the Championship progresses, the racing will get better too, improving the entire experience for the fans.

I want to win a championship with the best drivers, the best engineers and the best technology. As drivers, we want to make sure that we are involved in a championship with such a standard.

My library card. Every hurdle I've faced, I have researched my way over at a library. I'm grateful for that part of the American spirit that believes every citizen should have access to books.

Parents do not, indeed, live by bread alone. We feast daily on banquets of our own words.

I enjoy watching sitcoms where the team behind it have successfully created a whole alternate reality that you can enter into for half an hour every week.

When it comes to female fan attention, I'm married, so obviously I avoid the places where you might get unwanted female attention - clubs and social environments, bars and public spaces.

I like to dress up and look nice. I'm not quite at the stage yet financially to do that too often, but it's nice to push the boat out a little bit for award ceremonies and stuff.

Fans of the 'Inbetweeners' like the show because it is about four normal people, average guys or lower than average losers.

If people are asking me for clubbing tips, then they're in real trouble. My clubbing tip is never go to a club, because they're horrible and I hate them. I'm more of a dinner party guy.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world.And live your life.

You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.

Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals.

Few, if any, survive their teens.

It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include preachers, musicians, and blues singers).

Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

I want people who write to crash or dive below the surface, where life is so cold and confusing and hard to see.Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth.

When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.

How alive am I willing to be?

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander.

What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65… and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

For the first time in ages I felt a tiny pinprick in my heart--not like it was breaking, but like something small and unseen had begun sewing it closed again.

What better time to be kind to a beautiful stranger than when she’s weak, and rocking a schnoz like the Godfather?

I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, " while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.

I want you to say it, so I know you'll never forget. I want to hear you say my name.

Happier than a bird with a french fry.

You're too young to be so old.

It felt terrific. It felt deeper and richer than laughter. It felt like opening a door and tumbling headfirst into a pile of feathers.

Oh, Troy? He’s no one. He wanted something more from me than I could give.”“Friends with benefits?” Laurie asked, blushing as he said it.“More like frenemies with benefits.

You're not a nuthatch, Laurie.""Oh, but I am. I'm totally upside down. I'm a very backward kind of guy.

Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them.

Look back on your life and find something small that made a big difference.

Life is not a submarine.

If he would see me again, I would die happy. In the meantime, I was merely dying.

Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.

For a moment, I felt like myself again. Not the new me, not the old me, just the real me.

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.

Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?""I guess it depends on how you die.