Alex And Sofia Quotes & Sayings

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away. — Amy Tan

A balanced life has a rhythym. But we live in a time, and in a culture, that encourages everyone to just move faster. I'm learning that if I don't take the time to tune in to my own more deliberate pace, I end up moving to someone else's, the speed of events around me setting a tempo that leaves me feeling scattered and out of touch with myself. I know now that I can't write fast; that words, my own thoughts and ideas, come to the surface slowly and in silence. A close relationship with myself requires slowness. Intimacy with my husband and guarded teenage sons requires slowness. A good conversation can't be hurried, it needs time in which to meander its way to revelation and insight. Even cooking dinner with care and attention is slow work. A thoughtful life is not rushed. — Katrina Kenison

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust. — Rajneesh

Tool," William said, ... "As in a device to perform or facilitate mechanical or manual labor?"
"That's right Encyclopedia Britannica. Or in layman's terms: screwdriver, hammer - "
"How about a wrench," William interrupted,"
"You've got a quick learner on your hands, Bryn," Paul said ... "Sure, wrench works just fine as well," ... "Whatever blows your skirt up buddy." ...
"Well a wrench would come in handy right now," William mused. "Because you definitely have a couple screws loose. — Nicole Williams

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree. — Imogen Cunningham

A little girl's fantasies are one thing, and literature is another; just as numbers require rules to give them human meaning, words, too, demand a form to turn them into literature. — Benjamin Moser

Because I do enjoy winning, because I do have something nobody can copy, something nobody else can have; I'm me; I'm one of the best. — Iain M. Banks

Good units walk a thin line between indiscipline and ineffectiveness. Ignore the rules too often and you've got a mob, but enforce the rules too strictly and you've got a herd. — Henry V. O'Neil

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law. — John Yoo

Whatever mistakes her son might make in life, Cindy was sure God would have mercy on him. The church, she feared, might not. — Justin Lee

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do! — Seneca The Younger

Representative democracy had been replaced by the surveillance camera and the private police force. — J.G. Ballard

What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under the
same roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge? — Michel De Montaigne