Fingernail Biting Famous Quotes & Sayings

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one. — Ellen Glasgow

The compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires. — Silvia Tennenbaum

My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I've just joined out in the countryside at Quy. It's a lovely pool, inside a converted barn. Usually it's just me and a couple of other swimmers there. — Sophie Hannah

No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a notion of its craftsman-player, to recur to him in thought though ignorant of him by sight. In this way the creative power, which moves and safeguards its objects, is clear to us, though it be not grasped by the understanding. Anyone who refuses to progress this far in following instinctive proofs must be wanting in judgment. But still, whatever we imagined or figured to ourselves or reason delineated is not the reality of God. — Gregory Of Nazianzus

Jade: "You've got to propel rock star, not Sons of Anarchy."
Dante: "Sons of what?"
Jade: "Don't you watch television?"
Dante: "I only rent videos, and they all start with a P and end with a big O. — Marita A. Hansen

She's a beautiful flower put in a pot and hidden in a closet. You can't keep her a little girl forever. — V.C. Andrews

They say I am a brave girl
I'm a hailstorm for the rain
I'm a volcano for the mountain
I'm a diamond for the stone
And I wonder if I can be real me.
I see the crowd
I hear the noise
I keep my patience.
But inside I want to scream
Yes I want to scream like hell.
And when she call me on phone,
I wonder how she knows it.
I wonder how she hears those silent words..
How she sees those forbidden tears ...
I wonder how she knows I am missing somewhere ... — Emma Brynstein

The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My biggest gripe is still hope. In hell, hope is a really really bad habit. Like smoking cigarettes or fingernail biting. Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break. Yes, I know the word tenacious. I'm 13 and disillusioned. And a little lonely. — Chuck Palahniuk

Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition. — Noam Chomsky

There are times where you can't always get paid to do the things you really want to do. What really epitomizes your dream job is the job that pays you to do what you want to do. — Phil Keoghan

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child. — Ludwig Van Beethoven