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“Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.”
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“One should have the courage of one's loneliness.”
Source : Ngaio Marsh (2014). “Singing in the Shrouds: Roderick Alleyn #20”, p.179, Felony & Mayhem Press
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“There is always going to be a reason why you can't do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams.”
Source : "Interview With Olympic Gold Medalist Shannon Miller". Interview with Jen Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.
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“If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat.”
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“When I was younger - in elementary school - my parents are both teachers, so we moved around a lot. For the most part we always lived, before we settled south of Dallas, we always lived in the outskirts of city suburbs, kind of in these weird, desolate neighborhoods. Very brown and flat settings. I love Texas, I love the openness.”
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“Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate. And this impulse may be harmless, when it is genuine. But what are we to say when we see the formulas of heroic self-deception made use of by unheroic self-indulgence?”
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“There are two types of girls: those that can make cheap clothes look expensive and those that make designer clothes look cheap.”
Source : Twitter post from Sep 20, 2011
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“You see that in the news constantly; done both the right way and the wrong way. The most recent example I can think of, obviously, is Lance Armstrong, who got it all wrong. Who wanted to apologize strategically, instead of abjectly. What got me interested was the repetitive nature of it. There's something so ritualized about it. Then the ritual needs to be reenacted very carefully and pretty frequently - Tiger Woods, and now Manti Te'o and Lance Armstrong, and a little earlier Anthony Weiner or Eliot Spitzer.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com