Mr. Big Quotes
You are exactly who you need to be in this moment. Don't begrudge that or justify it.
And always remember that people's judgements about you are none of your business.
I loved him more than he loved me, and that is a bad place for a woman to be.
She was feeling something: a tiny pinpoint of feeling. She shifted slightly on the bathroom tiles. No. Surely not. From a book?
As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people.
Effective love is rarely efficient.
If we are always arriving and departing, it is alsotrue that we are eternally anchored. One's destinationis never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.
Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.
Home. Wow. I’m already calling it home.Well, isn’t that what any place is? Any place that you share withsomeone you love, I mean?
They're looking for guys like us, he says, young and hungry, not done yet. I say I'm not hungry, Rick, all I am is angry. He says that'll do just fine.
After mutual respect and understanding are achieved, it is possible to establish real, sincere relationships, which is the foundation of a solid long-term collaboration.
You can't solve problems until you understand the other side." –Jeffrey Manber
Clarity is a sign of intellectual energy.
Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong.
The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can't do everything.
One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything.
Therefore, to maximize your productivity, deliberately focus on precisely one thing at a time.
If the future of the free world depends on me, please accept my apology in advance
Never look down on someone because they offering a gift which is small in size
Helping others without any expectation and without gain is just as much a gift to yourself as it is to the person you give to.
They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.
Preservations are working to save neon signs for future generations, either on-site or in museums. After all, what would America be without a few giant doughnuts around.
Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done.
And in that moment, I was hit with the realization that this delicate layer of atmosphere is all that protects every living thing on Earth from perishing in the harshness of space.
In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists.
He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.
As I write this entry, I touch a saber-tooth tiger skull in my office. Without stars there could be no skulls
He believed the stars were wishes, and that one day they would all come true.
We will have to work hard to rest.
It's hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don't exist.
I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you...""You cannot roll with me, " said the Big O, "but perhaps you can roll by yourself.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Writing is not always a writer's playtime. It's actually a work in progress. Few understand this and mistakenly believe we're wasting time. But it's never a waste of time when doing what you love.
In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth.
Unfortunately the ‘warrior’ archetype accidentally dropped the soap in the shower and he has been getting boned senseless by the ‘soldier/lobbyist archetype’ ever since.
It sounds like a terrible idea, ” said Friday. “But that doesn’t mean it won’t work.
Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.
Real life applications get tricky when we think about them.
Battling busyness is a community response.
Edwards’s God was glorious, full of beauty, and seemingly uninterested in making people feel insecure. Edwards was a mystic, a man who didn’t simply write or preach about God, he experienced him.
In the midst of uncertainty, Doubt stealthy in. And in the face of Doubt, One must hold steadfast to Hope.
When we simplify, we are attending to our minds. Clearminds lead to creativity, vision, health, and productivity.