11 Quotes Tagged: alan-sheinwald

...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.

". . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me."

"I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what?

I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.

Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.

I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.
And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)

When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.