Erzabet Bishop > Erzabet's Quotes

“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
― Aristotle

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Keep writing. The only failure is in not trying at all.”
― Erzabet Bishop

“When I first saw her, she stood out in vivid, living color while the world around her turned to grayscale.”
― Lori Perkins, Hungry for Your Love

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I’m sorry, what did you say? I’m not fluent in stupid drunk slut”
― Christine Zolendz, Saving Grace

“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone care for a person that has manifested from my dreams, to make them hate me for putting them in danger, and for them to ask to be taken on another journey with me when it is all said and done is why I write.”
― Teresa Mummert

“Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself.”
― Teresa Mummert

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. Alice Walker”
― K.D. Mclean

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Cupcake, your middle name is trouble.”
― Janet Evanovich, Four to Score

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt