Everett Peacock > Everett's Quotes

“I craved something so deep, so passionate that it hurt to even think about it. Looking up at that first star, just now sparkling, happy in its dance through my atmosphere, I made my wish, my prayer, my making myself available.”
― Everett Peacock, The Parrot Talks In Chocolate

“Have you ever noticed, when things seem to be working against you, that if you focus on fixing things, think about a solution, that inevitably you work it all out?”
― Everett Peacock, The Parrot Talks In Chocolate

“Happiness takes effort. You have to make yourself available to happiness. That is probably the best definition of faith that I can come up with.”
― Everett Peacock, The Parrot Talks In Chocolate

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”
― Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes

“Experience: Mistakes you have survived.”
― Russell Blake, Night of the Assassin

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary