Pamela Hickethier > Pamela's Quotes

“Exactamente. Solo hay que pedir a cada uno, lo que cada uno puede dar —continuó el rey—. La autoridad se apoya antes que nada en la razón.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou

“Suddenly what to do with the rest of my life and what shirt to wear became equally daunting decisions.”
― Lolly Winston, Good Grief

“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
― Allen Ginsberg

“If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules”
― Paul Arden, It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be

“Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life?

People who are conventionally clever get jobs on their qualifications (the past), not on their desire to succeed (the future).

Very simply, they get overtaken by those who continually strive to be better than they are.”
― Paul Arden, It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be

“Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity.”
― Paul Arden, It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be

“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“I've already spent ten years of my life apologizing for that band. As their manager, that's all I really did. Apologize. For years afterward I'd walk into a hotel lobby and the receptionist would call to me, 'Mr. McGhee.' And I'd run up and drop to my knees and say, 'Oh, Jesus, I'm really sorry.'
They'd look at me funny and say, 'No, nothing's wrong. You have a telephone call.'
And I'd breathe a sigh of relief and thank the good Lord above that I wasn't managing Mötley Crüe anymore.

~ Doc McGhee.”
― Motley Crue, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“Did you get your presents from me?" I asked.
"Nikki." Doc grimaced. "You're sick. I answered the door, and there were two girls in Nazi outfits and a nun. What's wrong with you?"
"Fuck, Doc. I was just having fun. How about you, Mr. Udo? Did you enjoy your gifts?"
"My wife is like my air," he said.
"Huh?"
"Without her, I cannot live, She is my air."
I stood there feeling like a giant prick. I had tried to contaminate his air.”
― Nikki Sixx, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“I understood then why rock stars have such big egos: from the stage, the world is just one faceless, shirtless, obedient mass, as far as the eye can see.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“Fate, however, has a way of finding your vulnerabilities where you least expect them, illuminating them so that you realize how glaringly obvious they are, and then mercilessly driving a spike straight into their most delicate center.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“Those words—“Trust me, I’m a junkie”—should have been a clue right there.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.”
― Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

“Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing.”
― Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

“I was so happy every morning when I woke up that I was pissing smiley faces.”
― Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

“when you’re sitting on a plane 40, 000 feet up in the air, looking out the window, dreaming of your future and how bright it appears to be, or maybe just watching the drops of rain being pushed into different designs from the force of air at 400 mph, well, life feels good. it feels safe, your seat belt is on and your feet are up. then the oxygen masks fall, the plane jumps, snaps and jolts. people start to scream, babies burst out crying, people start praying all in time to the overhead announcement that we’re gonna crash. right then, as your life flashes before your eyes, you hear yourself say, “god, if you get me outta this one, i’ll stop [insert lie here] forever.” right then the nose of the plane pulls up and the captain says, “wow, that was a close one, folks. we’re ok, we’ll be landing in thirty minutes and we’re all safe and sound, sorry for the scare…” that’s how getting hooked on junk is, and when the kick is over you can’t believe you ever got on that plane in the first place. the question is, will you ever fly again?”
― Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

“I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.”
― Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

“Let go, and let God.”
― Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

“Like Hemingway said, the only thing that could spoil a day was people.”
― Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

“They say to keep what you have, you have to give it away. I believe that. I also believe that you can be cool as fuck, not give a fuck and fucking kick ass in life, and not be fucked up. I’m still the first person to say “Fuck you” but I’m faster to say “I love you.” If life is what you make it, I’ve made mine great. It took a lot of hard work and if you need to, you can do it too.”
― Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

“The dying could be easy…it was the living that I didn’t know if I could do…”
― Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

“Addictions are just symptoms of underlying issues, and in my view Nikki self-medicated the emotional pain of his childhood, and being away from his mother a lot, through drug use. What did he want? Ultimately he wanted to be able to create love for himself as a person.”
― Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

“He and Nona made me. They gave me a soft heart. They are the good that’s in me. When I lose my compassion and anger rears its ugly head, I think about my life”
― Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star