Craig Clevenger Quotes

I learned to pick up each piece, one at a time, from my pile of potential matches and try to fit it from any angle into the socket, then discard it and move on. Each failure is meaningless. It's not me, it's the pieces, and I have to, absolutely must, try each and every piece every possible way until I find one that fits. They aren't failures, they're steps, small bits of progress. ~ Craig Clevenger

I do know that I fell in love with the moment of falling in love and I wanted to keep that moment alive forever, at the expense of all those moments to follow. ~ Craig Clevenger

Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More. ~ Craig Clevenger

My left hand is a Rorschach blotch all its own, a six-fingered, skin-blood-and-bone ink splatter. People see it and fly their worst fears and secret fetishes at full mast when they think they're being discreet. They see it as strange, fascinating, ugly, beautiful, disgusting or erotic depending on what's behind their eyes. ~ Craig Clevenger

Just as it did when I spoke to you that day from the phone, your face comes into focus more and more as I hold you here beside me. ~ Craig Clevenger

I love you, I said, but not out loud. ~ Craig Clevenger

If no God, there must at least be a pattern-making demiurge. ~ Craig Clevenger

Desiree. It's like falling in love every night and having your heart broken every morning ... Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past. ~ Craig Clevenger

They see my fingers, they run. Dominique. Alicia. Penny.

They see my fingers, they want their hair pulled. Alex. Renee. Kristin. ~ Craig Clevenger

If I'm still conscious to face the consequences of my actions, then at the very least I will know that my actions were real, thay they indeed had consequences, though my lone life will amount to less than a single click of static in the symphony of the big bang. If my actions were real, then so were my memories, and if those were real, the things I've done have allowed me to see God and I0m not afraid of following my life down that eight-second black rabbit hole. ~ Craig Clevenger

What they show tells you what they want to hide. ~ Craig Clevenger

The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings, the grad students or interns who tell you about syndromes, conditions, deviances, and disorders, and they love, love, love to talk. They speak in half-sentences with a knowing smile-squint, watch you falter at the pause, and then keep talking. ~ Craig Clevenger

If I made you from nothing, then maybe I am God, and because I want More, maybe I'm the Devil. ~ Craig Clevenger

I woke up with a heart attack just out of my field of vision and with my dick in my hand, saying, I love you I love you I love you over and over ... And that my dear sweet love of my life, is how things were without you and I'd done everything I could to keep you from knowing that ~ Craig Clevenger

Carisoprodol. Comes in a white tablet like a big-ass vitamin, 350 mg of muscle liquefier for those tense, recovering athletes and furniture movers. Too much, and those relaxed muscles include your diaphragm, then your heart. ~ Craig Clevenger

I bought a piece of God, ground to dust and mixed with alcohol in a glass bottle the colour of molasses. ~ Craig Clevenger

When you're in love, your brain secretes endorphins into your blood. Organic morphine leaks out of a gland in your skull, feels like a low-grade opium rush. Some people confuse the two, the head rush and the love. You think you're in love with a person, but you're in love with a syringe. ~ Craig Clevenger

It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural. ~ Craig Clevenger

I learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the pack. thus, they strengthen the very gene pool they're feeding from. the threshold for what is weak, old or sick gets raised, and the strength, speed and instincts of new generations of hunters grow. a beautiful, self-perpetuating system where evolution is the antithesis of entropy. ~ Craig Clevenger

When a Narcissist is victimizing a person, the abused becomes someone they are not and behave in ways out of the norm. Where some may view the behavior as childish or immature, it is actually a person fighting to hang onto his or her sanity. He or she feels as if they are going crazy and those on the outside view them as such. This is what it is to love a Narcissist. The story can and will be melodramatic and confusing at times, but this is real life, and is what goes on in the mind of a person being victimized by a sick and twisted individual hell bent on destroying love. ~ Steven Craig

Bravery is not found in getting knocked down. Rather, bravery is found is getting back up knowing that you're going to get knocked down again. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained. ~ Craig Ferguson

There are no stones
honeycombed into
an abusive tongue
strong enough
to clip my wings. ~ Susie Clevenger

Until I realize that it's all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Steve:"'E sounds a liddle...eccentric."
Me: "Eccentric? He once tried to enter the record books as the first man to reach the South Pole in T-shirt and jandals."
"How far'd'e get?"
"Opotiki. ~ Craig Marriner

The hole that I'm in wasn't a hole until I dug it. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

But nobody lives in a universal thing called culture. They live only in specific cultures, each of which differ from one another. Plays written and produced in Germany are three times as likely to have tragic or unhappy endings than plays written and produced in the United States. Half of all people in India and Pakistan say they would marry without love, but only 2 percent of people in Japan would do so. Nearly a quarter of Americans say they are often afraid of saying the wrong things in social situations, whereas 65 percent of all Japanese say they are often afraid. In their book Drunken Comportment, Craig MacAndrew and Robert B. Edgerton found that in some cultures drunken men get into fights, but in some cultures they almost never do. In some cultures drunken men grow more amorous, but in some cultures they do not. ~ David Brooks

Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it? ~ Craig Ferguson

Bravery is not the absence of fear, for then I doubt that anyone would be truly brave. Rather, it is passion clothed in determination. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane. ~ Craig Ferguson

Some people will totally get restless, since you can make demos pretty easy. It's not unreasonable for someone to say, "All right, can you just record this and go home and work on it?" ~ Craig Finn

No person, collection of people, institution, government or organization of any kind can in any way promise to meet all of my needs for no person, collection of people, institution, government or organization possesses the array of resources necessary to do that. And so, I am left with the reality that either there is a God who can meet all of my needs, or I've been stranded in an existence that created me with needs that the existence itself cannot meet. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We find the strangest things to be frightened about in a life where there is no real danger, no real threat, and so we invent fears that would be absurd in a Borneo head-hunter, or an African mercenary. We become scared of success, choices we've made, scared of not getting there- wherever there may be. Scared of painting, scared of writing, scared of leaving the house, scared of missing out, scared of starting, scared of finishing. here, simply because life is so certain, we become terrified of it. ~ Craig Bolland

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive. ~ Daniel Craig

I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way he looked me straight in the eye, too. ~ Craig Brown

Freedom. You humans do love to prattle on about freedom, and you barely understand the word. How much agency do you think you actually have? From the cradle to the grave, you're bombarded with media, advertising, cultural and social pressure to conform…it's amazing you can think at all. ~ Craig Schaefer

And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we're on a grand adventure when we've completely forgotten what an adventure is. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

three of us who worked together on this book. When Bill Craig of LifeWay ~ Selma Wilson

Failure is the tuition you pay for success. ~ Craig Groeschel

And what did you do during that year before I met you?"

"Just figured stuff out. Craig told me what to expect, so I wasn't completely shocked. I hung out at the Apple Store in Covent Garden a lot. ~ Elizabeth Segrave

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made. ~ Craig Venter

People say I'll be drafted in the first round, maybe even higher. ~ Craig Heyward

So we all know the cliché characters: the Irish cop, the prostitute with a heart of gold, the writer with a drinking problem, and so forth. Clichés often exist for a reason, of course, and sometimes it's okay to use a tried and true character. But not always. Populate your stories with only stock characters and there won't be any reason to read your tales over anyone else's. ~ Craig Hart

I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s. ~ Craig Finn

Death is a reality that calls the rest of life and all of our assorted strivings into sharp relief. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The heart under your heart
is not the one you share
so readily so full of pleasantry
& tenderness

it is a single blackberry
at the heart of a bramble
or else some larger fruit
heavy the size of a fist ~ Craig Arnold

In fact, if our kids are successful in every normal way, they can still miss God's main mark. ~ Craig Groeschel

Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Well, everyone, welcome to Shark Week. Oh that's on CBS and there's been a lot of cutbacks, so it's just Friday night for a couple of minutes. And we don't have any sharks, just an immigrant with a puppet. Hey, but it's a start! ~ Craig Ferguson

Sailing is a big outlet for me. It's one of the key things I've been able to do by commingling science with sailing and my love of the sea. Also, I have several motorcycles, and I like to go on motorcycle trips. ~ Craig Venter

Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out what we're thinking." And sometimes that happens. ~ Craig Finn

I must not reflect on what I'm doing. Rather, I must do one of the most difficult things imaginable and reflect on 'why' I'm doing it. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

THE DYING GAUL is a Hollywood satire. But Hollywood is not the real subject matter here. My play uses that world of high-rolling big money - that crazy-making business - to examine a whole range of subjects.. ~ Craig Lucas

President Bush is in the hot seat over Iraqi pre-war intelligence. Remember the good ol' days when the only thing the president was trying to cover up was a stain? ~ Craig Kilborn

Highly readable, compelling analysis of America's current political crises ~ Craig Barnes

I now know how your anger
came from skeletons
that rattled in your heart
and you couldn't escape them. ~ Susie Clevenger