Authorial Reticence Quotes & Sayings

Lydia. Beautiful. My everlasting dream. — Mia Sheridan

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. — Robert Quillen

Even though his name was Norberto, everybody called him Alberto, except for my grandmother, who called him Alfredo. — Jennifer Arnold

You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it. — Molly Crabapple

I wonder what we Christians are known for in the world outside our churches. Are we known as critics, consumers, copiers, condemners of culture? I'm afraid so. Why aren't we known as cultivators - people who tend and nourish what is best in human culture, who do the hard and painstaking work to preserve the best of what people before us have done? Why aren't we known as creators - people who dare to think and do something that has never been thought or done before, something that makes the world more welcoming and thrilling and beautiful? — Andy Crouch

My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant, so to speak, from the South. My grandfather was born in South Carolina - well, both grandfathers were born in the South. — John Edgar Wideman

For us to change history, we first need to change the future. — Anthony Liccione

I'm a big techno fan. I love that thumping kick drum. We heard a version of 'Lost in Love' and it was thrash metal. It sounded cool! — Graham Russell

Greenland ice cores show the temperatures there changing by as much as 8 degrees Celsius in ten years, drastically altering rainfall patterns and growing conditions. — Bill Bryson

The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters. — Jack Vance

Morality is societal, but kindness is universal. Be kind even if it not always ethical. — Debasish Mridha