Agnes Skinner Quotes & Sayings

Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a witness against waste and want and war. It may confess Him, as in Tolstoi's work it does, or it may deny Him, but it cannot exclude Him; and in the degree that it ignores His spirit, modern literature is artistically inferior. In other words, all good literature is now Christmas literature. — William Dean Howells

Tracy thought she must be missing something, it felt like the same world as ever to her. The rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, kids everywhere falling through the cracks. The Victorians would have recognized it. People just watched a lot more TV and found celebrities interesting, that was all that was different. — Kate Atkinson

What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace. — Oprah Winfrey

Good to see you, Ty," Steve said. "Welcome to Phantom Works." "Shhhh . . ." Tyler said. "Somebody might hear!" "There's a sign," Steve pointed out. — John Ringo

Remember to play after every storm. — Mattie Stepanek

You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only thing I was good at. You become a clown and you make people laugh because a) it protects you from everything, and b) it's this validating force in your life. And when you're 12 and 13 years old, you need validation and you're lost and you're kind of floating and you suffer from a severe learning disability and you're overweight and you have glasses ... you become funny for a reason. — Matthew Lillard

God, listen to him. Fucking pathetic, going on about the girl like he was Keats or something. — Shayla Black

Because isn't that how forever happens- instantly? — Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

Through the window, I saw the beautiful world outside: the sky, the sun, the cacti, the rocks, and the dirt.
How I longed to return to it! I licked at the air, trying to smell the desert's delicious dusty scent, but could not. How was I able to see it without smelling it? Did humans control scents as well as the temperature and the waters?
Is that what windows were for, to keep out scents? Why did they wish to put invisible barriers between themselves and the world? — Patrick Jennings

I suppose that by this time they had finished their dressing. Roger Scurvilegs tells us nothing on such important matters; no doubt from modesty. "Next morning they rose," he says, and disappoints us of a picture of Udo brushing his hair. — A.A. Milne

We're not even in the same year together, let alone the same room . . . . except we are together. We're close. We're having a meeting of the minds. — Stephen King

You're beautiful and sad, just like your eyes. — Maggie Stiefvater

How she envied Diesel. He could love someone without knowing them. — Sonja Yoerg

Our rights come from our Creator and it is impossible to define America if you do not talk in public about where your rights come from. — Newt Gingrich

Educate us with your media machine, tell me what to dream. — Ray Davies