"Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells."

-- Richard Paul Evans

#Inspirational Quotes #Insperational Quotes #Cracks Quotes

“Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.”
“I didn't stop hating my body because my body changed; I stopped hating my body because my mind changed. I realized that the beauty standards I'd grown up striving and failing to meet were artificial and arbitrary, and I could choose to simply say "no" and define my own value.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.”
“Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.”

Source : Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (2012). “The Living State: With Observations on Cancer”, p.9, Elsevier
“Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but they weren't well received by my agent at the time, and it had been drilled into me that "memoir outsells fiction two to one" (not sure if that's true anymore, or if it ever was), so I felt like the only smart thing to do, professionally, was to keep mining my life for painful moments to recapitulate.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are ***** in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.”
“I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.”
“...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.”

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