Adam Elmakias Quotes & Sayings

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. — James Cromwell

What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance. — Max Lucado

Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future. — Martin Jacques

You don't want to give people what they want. Give them something that they didn't know that they wanted. — Ruth Reichl

But before all else a work of art is the creation of love. Love for the subject first and for the medium second. Love is the fundamental necessity underlying the need to create, underlying the emotion that gives it form, and from which grows the unfinished product that is presented to the world. Love is the general criterion by which the rare photograph is judged. It must contain it to be not less than the best of which the photographer is capable. — Eliot Porter

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways. — Agnes Sligh Turnbull

The one who did not understood that his time's root supports his life tree was born in vain. — Sorin Cerin

My children are the thing that make life work because, you know, I screwed up my life, and I know it was me, and it was really hard because it was so public, and that was very, very hard. — Kimberly Quinn

Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. — Samuel Butler

As a sad, grey dawn broke over the hillside he came upon a ruined cottage [named Broken-Heart Farm] which did not so much seem to have broken its heart, as its neck. — Susanna Clarke

To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions. — Gerard De Marigny

Do you think I'm stupid? Only a fool would use a fast-acting poison on a target with a taster. The taster goes down before the king gets it into his system.
Lila blinked at him, as if surprised by this display of logic. — Cinda Williams Chima

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.
Worry: Something to make you unnecessarily ill. — Idries Shah

Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! — Honore De Balzac