“Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. ~ Doug Larson”
― Mara Jacobs, quote from Worth The Fall
“A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ~ Author Unknown”
― Mara Jacobs, quote from Worth The Fall
“went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out. ~ Rodney Dangerfield”
― Mara Jacobs, quote from Worth The Fall
“I don’t sing because I am happy; I am happy because I sing. ~ William James”
― Mara Jacobs, quote from Worth The Fall
“Hockey players wear numbers because you can’t always identify the body with dental records. ~ Anonymous”
― Mara Jacobs, quote from Worth The Fall
“If you never change your mind, why have one? ~ Edward de Bono”
― Mara Jacobs, quote from Worth The Fall
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“feeling a bit like cinderella, she made it home at two minutes past one last night.”
― Karen Mahoney, quote from The Iron Witch
“Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound. If you’re trying a screenplay, you know it’s never going to be Bergman. If it’s a novel, well, what kind of a novelist can you hope to be when Dostoevski was there before you. And Dickens and Cervantes and all the other masters that led you to the prison of your desk. But if you’re a writer, that’s what you must do, and in order to accomplish anything at all, at the rock bottom of it all is your confidence. You tell yourself lies and you force them into belief: Hey, you suckers, I’m going to do it this one time. I’m going to tell you things you never knew. I’ve—got—secrets!”
― William Goldman, quote from Adventures in the Screen Trade
“One result of family failure has been the loss of dignity. No better example can be found than in the use of language. It’s a four-letter word in movies, on television, in comedy routines, and in real life. Time magazine asks, “Are the ’90s destined to be the Filth Decade?”
― Billy Graham, quote from Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain
“Fairies were different. In the winding mountain paths and emerald-topped forests of Feyland, there were so many magical creatures.”
― Kailin Gow, quote from Frost Kisses
“I sensed immediately that he'd once been overweight. He moved with a fat person's tiptoey apology.”
― Jennifer Egan, quote from Look at Me
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