Quotes of: Bad-day Keyword

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Norman Mailer

There's just something about vampires that's sexy. It's the same reason why women go for the bad boy - you want them but you shouldn't have them.

Nina Dobrev

Someone who doesn't make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a baby. We lost gracefully. And when someone won, he didn't act like he'd just become king of the world, either. Athletes in my day...

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

People talk about nightfall, or night falling, or dusk falling, and it’s never seemed right to me. Perhaps they once meant befalling. As in night befalls. As in night happens. Perhaps they, whoever they were, thought of a falling sun. That might be...

The Gun Seller

The reason why I hadn't washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly. I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the...

The Bell Jar

God, thank you for waking me up this morning. I want to embrace every day, however limited my day may be, as a gift from God. I want to live this day to its fullest. I know there are things I can no longer do. I know I am facing daily limitations. Bu...

Prayers & Promises When Facing a Life-Threatening Illness: 30 Short Morning and Evening Reflections

King: [while cleaning the latrines] I'm too short for this shit, man. 39 and a wake-up, a pause for the cause and I'm a gone motherfucker. Back to the world! Crawford: Hey, I broke a hundred the other day, 92 left to go. April 17th, home to Californi...

Platoon

For age and want save while you may, no morning sun lasts a whole day.

American

The day your horse dies and your money's gone, your relatives change into strangers.

Chinese

The day your horse dies and your money's lost, your relatives change to strangers.

Chinese

The jail is closed day and night and always full; temples are always open and still empty.

Chinese

Advice is a stranger; if he's welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.

Malagasy

He who does not lose his way by night will not lose his way by day.

Nigerian

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

The Captive & The Fugitive

But at the end of the day, you can't major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default.

The Cheese Monkeys

How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day just cease to exist?

Commencement

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

Confessions

The light of revelation cannot shine through the fire of anger." (HS/el)

A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power

It takes more energy to be negative than positive for negativity is a burden carried." EL

A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power

Fear pushes us down; joy picks us up!" (EL)

A Cup of Grace for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power

Humility: The most quietly profound professor in the university of Christian living.

A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power