Cathryn Dolly > Cathryn Dolly's Quotes

“You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, The Funny Thing Is...

“If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong.

- Kung Fu, The Legend Continues -”
― David Carradine

“Is that not the perfect visual image of life and death? A fish flapping on the carpet, and a fish not flapping on the carpet. So powerful even a five-year old child with no concept of life and death knew what it meant. Not only did she know Emilio was dead, she knew she had killed him. So she comes running into my room, holding Emilio in both of her little hands - it was so cute - and she wanted me to make Emilio better. And I asked her, why did she step on Emilio? And she said, she didn't know. But I knew why. You didn't mean to hurt Emilio, you just wanted to see what would happen if you stepped on him, right?”
― David Carradine

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”
― David Carradine

“So the soul mate does make us feel complete, like finding the deeper understanding of ourselves...souls will choose to be with or marry others when incarnate. We go through countless experiences, and sometimes one soul outgrows the other one (which also imitates life when one person grows and his or her partner stays stagnant). Of course these two are still connected-it's just that one has evolved to a greater degree than the other half has. This doesn't mean that your soul mate stops watching out for you or loving you-you two will be close for eternity. So instead of looking for the one soul mate, enjoy all the wonderful people you know and love here and from other lives...and even on the Other Side.”
― Sylvia Browne, Spiritual Connections: How to Find Spirituality Throughout All the Relationships in Your Life

“Change your thinking, change your life.”
― Feather Stone, The Guardian's Wildchild

“The tears I feel today
I'll wait to shed tomorrow.
Though I'll not sleep this night
Nor find surcease from sorrow.
My eyes must keep their sight:
I dare not be tear-blinded.
I must be free to talk
Not choked with grief, clear-minded.
My mouth cannot betray
The anguish that I know.
Yes, I'll keep my tears til later:
But my grief will never go.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

“Harper, treat your words with care
For they may cause joy or despair
Sing your songs of health and love
Of dragons flaming from above”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragon Harper

“speak hard, steal the air.”
― pump up the volume

“When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because of it.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern

“There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

“Rider to your mate be true
Follow heart in deed and do
All the best your strength can find
So you will rest in heart and mind”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragon's Time

“Fire-lizard dance on wing
To the raucous song I sing.
Fire-lizrad wheel and turn,
Show me how the dragons learn.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragon's Fire

“Harper to your word be true
Holder, crafter you also hew
To honesty, integrity, and respect
All others without regard to intellect”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragon Harper

“The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.”
― Anne McCaffrey

“To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Nerilka's Story

“A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Acorna: The Unicorn Girl

“be you and not someone else”
― Anne McCaffrey

“My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.
Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me.
We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever been
And only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsong

“The little queen all golden
Flew hissing at the sea.
To stop each wave
Her clutch to save
She ventured bravely.

As she attacked the sea in rage
A holderman came nigh
Along the sand
Fishnet in hand
And saw the queen midsky.

He stared at her in wonder
For often he'd been told
That such as she
Could never be
Who hovered there, bright gold.

He saw her plight and quickly
He looked up the cliff he faced
And saw a cave
Above the wave
In which her eggs he placed.

The little queen all golden
Upon his shoulder stood
Her eyes all blue
Glowed of her true
Undying gratitude.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

“Step by step
Moment by moment
We live through
Another day”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragon Harper

“A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.”
― Anne McCaffrey

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Who wills, Can.
Who tries, Does.
Who loves, Lives.”
― Anne McCaffrey

“Love isn't simple, Katie, and neither is life. Things that are worth having are sometimes complicated, and they evoke complicated emotions. You know, one of the reasons people often turn to alcohol or drugs is that they can't deal with complications.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Spin

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“If you're going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
― Betty Friedan