What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
Jodi Picoult
Related I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe i... JODI PICOULT How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don... ELLIOT MABEUSE you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. ERNEST HEMINGWAY I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three p... NIKKI GIOVANNI I think in the end, you would have stayed with me, out of obligation...or maybe comfort. Maybe I was... S.C. STEPHENS Sometimes your music sounds like there's too much inside of you. Maybe even you couldn't get it all ... AVA DELLAIRA You learn more from your mistakes than you do from your success, and last year I learned a lot. That... DALE EARNHARDT JR I always wanted to know what it is right. Maybe we know each other from time immemorial, if you know... GREGOR GOLOB Art is never finished, only abandoned. , (MAYBE) Something was wrong with him - and down deep he'd known his whole life. Maybe the wards had even sai... ANNE URSU It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN I totally remember what it felt like to be so full.” “Full of what?” “I don't know. Full of ... JONATHAN TROPPER I just wanted someone to say 'you know, that looks like a fun place to be' because that's what I thi... TONY BLAKE Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you... LISA KLEYPAS I have a higher mission in life. Maybe when you get to a certain age, you say, 'Why not?' I'm not go... ALAN HALL I don't know -- maybe. What did you think? ERLANA LARKINS I think it would give us a sense of peace to know what happened and why. And just to know that whoev... ANNE REEVES Sometimes your music sounds like there’s too much inside you. Maybe even you couldn’t get ... AVA DELLAIRA I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow fro... KAREN HANDEL You just have to be aware of who you are around. You know the guys who are going to take chances, so... JAMIE MCMURRAY You just have to be aware of who you are around. You know the guys who are going to take chances, so... JAMIE MCMURRAY But maybe I am. Maybe that’s exactly what I am. Maybe all I wanted was for Toby to hear the wolves... CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Sometimes I get frustrated because I don't like to lose and probably didn't approach things the corr... HAPPY HARVICK I don't know what it was, maybe the net looked a little bit bigger for me. For whatever reason, some... BRAD BOYES If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want ... DAVID LEE ROTH Asteroids may be different from one another. If you find an asteroid on a collision course, you may ... EDWARD LU Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once... CRAIG GROESCHEL As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE Nina might not be able to put you back, you know. Not without another dose of parem. You could be st... LEIGH BARDUGO He likes to come at it from a different angle. He likes to get to the root of the thought and tries ... BEN CRANE What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it. CRAIG GROESCHEL Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to o... PATRICIA POLACCO You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing. KATEY SAGAL Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I... RAYMOND CARVER You get lonely, is what it is. A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It... JIM SHEPARD You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just ... OPRAH WINFREY The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE Some people go off to an ashram or they, you know, have a midlife crisis and buy a sports car. For m... JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL Maybe you are Saul's quarter-life crisis, but so what? Maybe he's yours. Or maybe you two are the lu... EMILY HENRY Rough as life can be, I know in my bones we are supposed to stick around and play our part. Even if ... BILL CLEGG You just take and take don´t you? Out there with your thumb in the air—not a care in the world, j... DAVID SEDARIS Dick understood economic trends, and he understood what the paper needed to do to stay on top. He al... JACK SWEENEY I like the closeness. I think it will be helpful. I might have to get away from the parents a little... MATT WARNER What I'm getting out of it is a feeling that when I come out here, I'm not going to be overwhelmed b... HUNTER PENCE Do not demand from others what you would not expect of yourself. DANIEL MELGAçO You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you c... PETER BERG I wish there were a rulebook for intimacy. Some kind of guide to tell you when you've crossed the li... MEREDITH GREY Life does appear to be unfair at times. We are overwhelmed by our problems and get into sadness mode... LATIKA TEOTIA I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alo... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to ... HARVEY MARTIN Part of what I do and what I want to do is I want to bring art into the everyday life. If you can ta... KENNY SCHARF Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when... NIKE ADVERTISEMENT I'd say, at the end of the day, you know, from a songwriting practice standpoint, you write song... BEN HOPKINS I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you ... PHILIP K. DICK Dixon Steele: You know, when you first walked into the police station, I said to myself, “There sh... DOROTHY B. HUGHES What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c... DONNA TARTT Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get GEORGE BERNARD SHAW As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my a... ZACH GALIFIANAKIS Life is like a bad haircut. At first it looks awful, then you kind of get used to it, and before you... NEAL SHUSTERMAN So the way to control your life is this; every minute you live, maybe you are in church; ask yoursel... SUNDAY ADELAJA We needed this (to lose) to get ready for districts. Maybe we can learn from it. DEBBIE SPRANGER I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan... HARVEY MARTIN Even an Astral Adventure needs a little sensuality. "Perhaps you can show me how tastefully dec... SCOT FIN Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by other... SAINT AUGUSTINE Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by other... SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come... STEVE MARABOLI I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know... NORMAN ROCKWELL We need to truly learn from this, and know what playing like this can get us. It can get you an 'L' ... BOBBIE WILLIAMS She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from on... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, bu... TEA LEONI I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til... JACK KEROUAC If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA You said that you are ill... but from from what? DEYTH BANGER Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you'... JERRY SEINFELD In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to ... JODI PICOULT Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic. FRIDA KAHLO You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it... NELLIE MCKAY I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped somet... LEO TOLSTOY I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing... JANE CAMPION Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Maybe it didn’t seem like a big deal to you Zach. But now, I hope you understand. My world was col... JAY ASHER Maybe I'll live my whole life just getting by. Maybe I'll be discovered; maybe I'll be colonized. Yo... ANI DIFRANCO Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Give someone a thought, and they will produce an act;
When they sow that act, they will reap a habit... PERRY ROTHENBAUM Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ... GARY F EVANS... When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you. CRAIG GROESCHEL Even as we get older, we get in these routines - and routines are nice and comfortable - but I think... MASI OKA In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a litt... TRENT REZNOR It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite... NAT WOLFF Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. TOM LEHRER
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JODI PICOULT Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're ... JODI PICOULT Every life has a soundtrack. There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent ru... JODI PICOULT You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thin... JODI PICOULT I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves m... JODI PICOULT Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it... JODI PICOULT Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots ... JODI PICOULT On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm ... JODI PICOULT I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved s... JODI PICOULT When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, t... JODI PICOULT Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you... JODI PICOULT Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved y... JODI PICOULT There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations JODI PICOULT I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitti... JODI PICOULT It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did... JODI PICOULT It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee... JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else? JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ... JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of ( JODI PICOULT When you read the art, JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives. JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w... JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa... JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th... JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e... JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth. JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l... JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug... JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it? JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D... JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c... JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe... JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid. JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there. JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p... JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon... JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al... JODI PICOULT I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms ar... JODI PICOULT