I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.
I am a master of foolhardy plans, I thought. I have so much practice I consider them professional risks.
Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.
I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.
I am very good at groveling.
Where are my guards, Teleus?" He was still speaking softly. Three men dead and he wasn't even breathing hard, Costis noted.
I knew I would be in the story somewhere," Eugenides interjected. "Oh no," said Phresine, "This was a humble servant. " "Ouch. " "Though very courageous. " "Not me," whispered Eugenides to his pillow.
The guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence. . . and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose melancholic voice awakes in our soul exquisite reveries.
Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in honesty.
If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.
I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.