quotes about Aloofness

“The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself.”

Source : Maxim Magazine (UK edition), December 2001.

“Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.”

“When I gave up my office job and became a full-time professional photographer, my fortunes certainly improved markedly. We moved away from the council estate into our own house and for the first time in my life, I had a little spare money.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.”

“I bought the sweetness with this pain.”

“When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know what a song is going to be about before I write it.”

“To put it bluntly and plainly, if Christ is not my Substitute, I still occupy the place of a condemned sinner. If my sins and my guilt are not transferred to Him, if He did not take them upon Himself, then surely they remain with me. If He did not deal with my sins, I must face their consequences. If my penalty was not borne by Him, it still hangs over me. There is no other possibility.”

“The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.”

“The moment the door opened I knew an ass-kicking was inevitable. Whether I'd be giving it or receiving it was still a bit of a mystery.”

“To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.”

Source : David Gerrold (2002). “The Martian Child: A Novel About A Single Father Adopting A Son”, p.113, Forge Books