Hervy Myers Quotes

How foolish of me to have disregarded you, dear goddess. I won't make that mistake again. ~ Brynn Myers

I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check. ~ Walter Dean Myers

Don't you think you can right your wrongs, Laura? That you can make things better by trying to get back to everything you lost? ~ Jason Myers

Roger Goodell makes $40 million a year, which more than compensates him for the most difficult and sensitive decision in his nine years as commissioner: How hard to come down on Tom Brady, the best quarterback in NFL history, who Goodell told me last year is a "great ambassador for the game" ~ Gary Myers

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader. ~ Brian Reynolds Myers

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes. ~ Dee Dee Myers

I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic. ~ Mike Myers

A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered the option of visual diversions for diners. ~ Kevin Myers

It's weird. I never knew how much I had to hate about myself until I had the time to think about it. ~ Jason Myers

Contained exhilaration is not nearly as exciting as its release ...
accept challenge! What excitement do you have to share with the world? ~ Lorii Myers

As much as I want her by my side forever, I think an even more terrifying prospect than losing her is me standing in the way of her full potential. ~ Jason Myers

It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact. ~ Lorii Myers

If you can't lay an egg or milk a cow ~ Rebbecca D. Myers

Uh oh, this guy needs coffee and croolers stat. ~ Mike Myers

Maybe next time you'll take me up on dinner."
"I doubt it, Mr. Holbrook. I'm pretty sure hell will freeze over first."
Again he smiled. "Well, that may be happening sooner than you think, my dear. ~ Brynn Myers

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me. ~ Mike Myers

What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms. ~ Brendan Myers

Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down. ~ Walter Dean Myers

From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its source. It was my foster mother, a half-Indian, half-German woman, who taught me to read, though she herself was barely literate. I remember her reading to me every day from 'True Romance' magazine. ~ Walter Dean Myers

The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'. ~ Kenneth Myers

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure. ~ Dee Dee Myers

The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that's not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie. ~ Walter Dean Myers

Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God. ~ Kevin Myers

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard. ~ Walter Dean Myers

There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups. ~ Walter Dean Myers

He whispered as he kissed down her neck. "I would love nothing more than to take you right here on the counter, Fire Angel, but if I'm late to meet with your grandmothers, they might just decide to throw my ass on a funeral pyre and I wouldn't be back for three days. ~ Brynn Myers

Illusions can be very convincing. No one has any reason to suspect that I am anything less than what I appear. ~ Maggi Myers

All I could think of was the phrase my dad's father used to say to him when I was a kid, "Don't let your alligator mouth overload your hummingbird ass," and I think I'd done just that. ~ Brynn Myers

We are all broken in one way or another. It's how we put those pieces back together that matters. ~ Maggi Myers

The present Western civilization ... is dominated by the extravert viewpoint. There are plenty of reasons for this domination: extraverts are more vocal than introverts; they are more numerous, apparently in the ratio of three to one; and they are accessible and understandable, whereas the introverts are not readily understandable, even to each other, and are likely to be thoroughly incomprehensible to the extraverts. ~ Isabel Briggs Myers

We look for wonders and the unseen reality-the hand of God- in things extrordinary, when more often his presence is to be found in the unheralded, familiar, everyday events of which life is woven. ~ David G. Myers

It's the same dress that girl wears when she loses her virginity in the backseat of some shitty Honda that smells like Newport cigarettes and Boone's Farm wine while a Jewel song plays from the speakers. ~ Jason Myers

Storytellers tell stories, of course, but they aren't alone in doing so. The dawn tells a story; so does the sun as it arcs across the sky; so does the sunset. The seasons tell a complex story. The fall of an acorn and the growth of an oak tree tell a story. A farmer's plow and the furrows in a field tell a story as well. Even the waves crashing on a beach tell a story. How easy to see, then, that an ax tells a story, too, at least while it hangs for a moment in the air just before descending onto your neck. That story is: Now you die. ~ Edward Myers

The range of emotions and the masks people wear. The meaning underneath the meaning underneath the meaning that can't truly explain anything. ~ Jason Myers

True confidence is born of experiencing your hard work and seeing your determination pay off. ~ Lorii Myers

Jaime,' he said. 'You know your mother.'
'Right. I do. At least she's consistent,' I said. ~ Jason Myers

When aspirations are perceived to be achievable, ambition and drive can erase excuses. ~ Lorii Myers

I mention all this to make the point that if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn't choose human beings for the job.
But here's an extremely salient point: we have been chosen, by fate or Providence or whatever you wish to call it. It's an unnerving thought that we may be living the universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.
Because we are so remarkably careless about looking after things, both when alive and when not, we have no idea-- really none at all-- about how many things have died off permanently, or may soon, or may never, and what role we have played in any part of the process. In 1979, in the book The Sinking Ark, the author Norman Myers suggested that human activities were causing about two extinctions a week on the planet. By the early 1990s he had raised the figure to about some six hundred per week. (That's extinctions of all types-- plants, insects, and so on as well as animals.) Others have put the figure ever higher-- to well over a thousand a week. A United Nations report of 1995, on the other hand, put the total number of known extinctions in the last four hundred years at slightly under 500 for animals and slightly over 650 for plants-- while allowing that this was "almost certainly an underestimate," particularly with regard to tropical species. A few interpreters think most extinction figures are grossl ~ Bill Bryson

Do you have any idea how maddening it's been envisioning you in the lingerie that matches those shoes?"...
"Corbin, I'm serious."
"I'm sure you are but that is my final offer. Take it or leave it and if you chose the latter, I will let this home sit empty and fall into disrepair until you finally come around."
I closed my eyes and sighed, "That's really not fair."
"Anything is fair when I'm trying my level best to get you to fall in love with me...."
I kissed him gently on the lips and walked away from him but just as I reached the hall, I turned back to see him watching me. "Oh, and if we're NOT playing fair, then maybe you should know I'm not wearing any underwear. ~ Brynn Myers

The limitless mind lets us dream and examine and explore. It opens us up to opportunity. We come up with a desire, a clear, fresh perspective, and a potential goal to observe from afar. And we wonder, is this it, the right choice, the best choice to follow? ~ Lorii Myers

Hard work by itself isn't worth two cents on a rainy day if it doesn't give you a good life. ~ Walter Dean Myers

Wherever your heart rests There I will live and be blessed I've tried to line up the things I Needed to say but now my feelings just Tumble from me. I am half foolish, Half drunk with wanting you With wanting to take your hand And leap into the darkness of whatever Life will bring. Love makes me Brave and without love I'm made Nothing. ~ Walter Dean Myers

I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems? ~ Walter Dean Myers