N.B. Williams Quotes
I don't suppose you have a rocket powered helicopter hidden in your bra?
I manage a toast to the Christmas treeand one to the sweet absurdityin the miracle of the verb to be.Lucky you, lucky me.
It seems to me that God would not have endowed us with a mind and a sense of curiosity if he did not mean for us to use it.
I’m a realist, ” I said. “Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.
It would be wrong to kill oneself if one did not know exactly the nature of one's eyes.
Letting go of "stuff" allowed the world to collapse behind me as I moved, so I became nothing more or less than who I simply was: Me.
he had kidded with us that if we didn't let go at the proper moment, he would slap our hands with a stick, and we had all laughed because who would be silly enough to hang on when they should let go?
Writing is 90% struggle. The other 10% is up to you.
When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity - a waste of precious time and effort.
Fitch is on his way. He's coming after he blows up some wizards.
...every god serves a purpose and every faith fills a need.
When you are your authentic self, you fulfill the possibilities that dwell inside your soul.
I continueto believe in miracles. But i know that miracles come to thosewho work very hard
I had come to learn pretty quickly that life has its highs and lows just like the ocean does and sometimes you just have to see how far they'll carry you.
The best ads are about the customer and how the product will change his life.
People in business are uniquely unqualified to see their own companies and product objectively. Too much product knowledge causes them to instinctively answer questions no one is asking.
He was always running or bounding, never just walking. He seemed always at the point of defeating the law of gravity.
Love ... was part imagination, its web spun as much in the dark lonely separated evenings of longing as in the shared times together.
It's always amazing how when we're sure we've lost something for good, it winds up finding us.
I was a let-er-goer and she was a hanger-on-er, but that doesn't mean I don't lean into her territory every once in a while.
We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.
There are no injuries that run so deep that one can't add insult to them and make them feel even worse.
One can follow the sun, of course, but I have always thought that it is best to know some winter, too, so that the summer, when it arrives, is the more gratefully received.
unsignificantlyoff the coastthere wasa splash quite unnoticedthis was Icarus drowning
...Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.
The worst kind of tyrant was the one who once had been the victim.
People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may, ' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.
A friend of mine, Warren Lemming, has this theory: if you’re famous, it’s as if you’ve got a golden monkey on your shoulder. When people come up to talk to you, they just see the monkey.
Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.
...human beings dream of life everlasting. But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.
If 9 out of 10 grandmothers selected from 10 respective cultures can agree it is evil, then it's evil. Cut it out.
I presented my feminine side with flowers. She cutthe stems and placed them gently down my throat.And these tu lips might soon eclipse your brightesthopes.
Don't live life hiding behind your past. Live for the moment. When you find someone you want to spend forever with, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day, a year or fifty years
