"Perhaps you're not crazy, but you're very creative."

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Source : Ellen Sussman (2011). “French Lessons: A Novel”, p.60, Ballantine Books

Ellen Sussman

#Crazy Quotes #Creative Quotes

“If you don't seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.”
“A lot of people question my image and why I do what I do, and the answer is because this is how I want to present myself.”
“All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.”
“The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin. There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.”
“As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life.”
“Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction”
“I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you keep running away every time you are scared, then you will do nothing but hide your entire life. Is that really, how a person should live their life? The only way you can get over this fear is by fighting. No matter how scared or afraid you are, you cannot win without fighting.”

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