American Family famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  • I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

  • I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.

  • And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.

  • It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

  • All who wait upon the Lord shall rise higher and higher upon the mighty pinions of strong devotion, and with the unblinking eye of faith, into the regions of heavenly-mindedness, and shall approach nearer and nearer to God, the Sun of our spiritual day.

  • There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

  • Nobody knows how long you're going to have life on Earth, so you really have to work at being joyous and happy.

  • As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.

  • If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.