Antun Gustav Quotes & Sayings

No individual element in your story, including the hero, will work unless you first create it and define it in relation to all the other elements. — John Truby

Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless. — Rickson Gracie

People are so accustom to dysfunction that they forget what's healthy and what's not. — Alexandra Elle

I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre. — Cate Blanchett

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A program of active reading and writing might be the hardest form of thinking, but it is also the most organized methodology of self-education. Reading exposes the mind to a world of ideas heretofore unimaginable and encourages the novice learner to write. Reading is a form a joint mediation and writing represents the product of several authors' collective and collaborative minds at work. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The day life turned into nothing this world could fix, — Sue Monk Kidd

Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear. — Jamais Cascio

Some people, when they lose it, they scream, they fight. I hope that would be me — Amie Kaufman

Everything you do with a horse is a dance, — Buck Brannaman

If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go! — Bill Hybels

Painting. Carefully, I took down the goat, the chicken, and me and — Susan Vreeland

Some days I don't have time for a full workout, but I do have to dry my hair, right? So rather than just stand there blow-drying, I do several kinds of leg squats at the same time. I believe in multitasking. — Christie Brinkley

I'm my mother's first child, born when she was almost fourteen years old.
"Think of it," I said to Laura when I turned twelve. "I'm almost Mother Sarah's age when she was married."
Laura looked at me, her squinty eyes even more narrowed. "You could have your own old man as a husband," she said.
"Shut up," I had said.
And she had laughed. — Carol Lynch Williams

At the tattoo parlor, my friend worked with needle and ink applying a design to the skin on his client's back, as the three of us sat discussing our spiritual desires and ambivalence about religion. In the midst of our conversation, the man under the needle turned and said, 'Jesus is cool, it's just that they have f***ed with Jesus. I mean, Christianity was at its best when it was secret and hidden and you could die for it.' This profound, if crass, statement recognizes that the power of the gospel lay in its ability to be a counter-cultural and revolutionary force - not only a story to believe, but a distinctive way of life. The man's comment prompted me to consider the questions: Am I in some measure complicit in the domestication of Jesus? — Mark Scandrette