Greg Evans Quotations

Words may very well exceed their weight in gold.

When I die I want to be buried with a notebook and two sharpened pencils, because a computer will someday become outdated, but pencil and paper will be used forever.

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels.

Shakespeare was shakespeare; whether untrussing, but still him.

Most people don't realize their neighbors are as nosy as they are.

Minimum wage is either a complaint or a reason to work that much harder. It has no medium.

Mother Nature visualized brilliance in everything; but surly was drunk when she created the liberal.

Men of superior creative aptitude are most dependent on their women.

My ambition is the immediate page of the book I am currently working on. The next word to follow the last. A fresh new idea.

Nicotine withdrawal was very much like trying to s*** a melon. The pressure was remarkable! Seemingly an impossible task. I would break out into sweats, cough, curse, yell, and wake up periodically throughout the night from vicious nightmares. Three full weeks of endless torment without relief. The incommodiousness of it all.

If all humans were blind they'd find racism in pitch.

I enjoy writing to Mozart's Requiem Mass; and the Kyrie with an energy and beauty that on occasion has moved me to tears. And upon it's completion I lay upon the bed as if in a post coital perplexity. By the end of the chef-d'oeuvre I'm in curious shape. To put into words the sounds that reach into the depths of me I cannot. To put into words the sentiment, and fervor, joy, anguish, humor, and love; the ignis fatuus, I cannot, but only be amazed each and every time.

For most darkness is when dreams are made; but for the wise so to when there is light.

Whatever honor there is in giving up, I want no part of.

Hard-work is the cure for everything except disease

God is whatever you personally believe God to be

Humility is the greatest quality in a human.

I suspect the universe is accelerating proportionally with our understanding of the laws of nature and life respectively. It is not much different then the birth of a flower.

I thought she did a great job. It's too bad that we didn't hang onto the ball in that (fifth) inning. ... In order to be competitive against teams like State College, we have to play defense.

Laughter is a good disease. If only it spread as quickly.

Laugh at yourself once in a while; give yourself a break.

Part of perseverance is knowing what you want. Indecision is as useful as road signs in Spain written in Dutch.

Stars are wonderful guides. Both the real and the imaginary.

Writing is not a craft for the timid.

We worry about entire nations while our neighbor is starving

When birds fight it is the ears that suffer; but when people fight it is the children who suffer.

Tragedy, sadness, loneliness and despair taught me that life is really a beautiful thing; if it wasn't I wouldn't be able to recognize that anything was wrong

There is nothing more satisfying than being able to understand.

What of this world but joys and sorrows.

To study the law of contracts is like a triathlon for the mind. You don't think you can finish and once complete you can't stand up.

Both good and bad days should end with productivity. Your mood or affairs should never influence your work

Be not afraid of flying. Angels live in the clouds and the devil on the earth.

Every human-being has the propensity to be an upstanding citizen.

Endless opportunity is accessible to every man and woman alive. A notebook and a sharpened pencil.

Equality only exists in the food bowl of a dog.

The words bloom like Spring flowers and pullulate as falling leaves in Autumn. Fresh invigorate swirls of the pen delight the pages with imagery, symbolism, theater, and emotion that pulsates with the passion of an estranged lover's heart. Love is where it comes from. A love that defies words and entertains madness.

The secret is if you write enough words, sooner or later you have a book.

The snow was falling heavily outside. I sat before a blank page for close to ten hours. I refused to get up; instead attempted with great pains to coerce stubborn thoughts from my noodle. Useless it seemed until the 11th hour and then all I'd seen and felt and heard, arrived, and was transcribed effortlessly like the tune of chirping birds.

So sad is a man who has never learned to forgive

A quality novel is never completed on a full nights sleep.

An ideal life does not exist; but a happy one can be attained.

You never miss them until they're loving someone else.

There needs to be a complete resetting of the negative publicity that we've had recently with the Desert Vista coaches, cleaning house. The school's a wonderful school academically. It would be nice to see them do well in all areas, like basketball.

It is that eternal struggle of good versus evil, that is so engaging to the mind of man and woman alike.

Forgive people with cheer once, forgive them thereafter with pity.

Exhaustion cripples me, sleep has become a nostalgia, the studying, focus, awe and frustration is perpetual, day morphs to night and vice versa, I dream of law, the rules of William Strunk Jr., Calill and the smoke ball, participial phrase, the active voice, Erin, colloquialisms, Boone v. Coe, my nerve endings seem to be losing sensation yet my mind is a raging fire. I love it all. I love my life.

The faculty of Jennifer Salzman to bridal design is like William Shakespeare to the play; such creations wholly primordial forever can sweep away the breath of even the most stunning of sunsets.

I learned as a child, to tell a truly entertaining story requires a bit of fabrication.

In ten years I don't know where I'll be, but it won't be here.

I believe that divine minds are all concious of a universal truth that begins and ends with geometry

The character of a person is often carried in the mannerisms of his pet.

A great flaw in men is their inability to open wide their tiny eyes. And it shows!

The destruction menial labor has done on my psyche is beyond repair.