Blattenberger District Quotes & Sayings

If attics could make wishes, this one would have nothing to wish for. — April Genevieve Tucholke

Apparently a girl could get just as far with a blindfold and a dream. — Barbara Bretton

Someone once told me that when you die every deed you ever committed, whether on behalf of good or bad is represented in the form of pebbles. Black ones for every deed done in the name of evil, white ones for every act of good. The pebbles are weighed upon a great scale, and if the white stones outweigh the black then your soul is granted peace."
He opens one bleary eye. "What's the punishment for too many black acts?"
"There is no worse punishment than standing on the threshold of heaven alone. — Ellis Adler

Each day is a new life. Each moment is really a new life. What we call memories are really present thoughts. What we call anticipations are really present thoughts. No one has ever lived in any moment except the present. — Emmet Fox

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results. — Edward De Bono

Just because I have listened carefully and intently to one thing from God does not mean that I will listen to everything He says. — Oswald Chambers

There are certain children who are told they are too sensitive, and there are certain adults who believe sensitivity is a problem that can be fixed in the way that crooked teeth can be fixed and made straight. And when these two come together you get a fairytale, a kind of story with hopelessness in it.
I believe there is something in these old stories that does what singing does to words. They have transformational capabilities, in the way melody can transform mood.
They can't transform your actual situation, but they can transform your experience of it. We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable. — Lynda Barry

If you can read, write and think, you have liberated yourself from any darkness into the wonderful light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie. — John Frankenheimer

The horse never knows I'm there until he needs me. — Bill Shoemaker

I have got everything which a politician needs. — Tariq Anwar

The door was open; I stepped in. A ghost town with a ghost theater, yet the former grandness still evident, the gold wallpaper peeling, the velvet seats in attendant rows, though ripped and ruined. Why did I cry? Not because it was a wreck, but because I felt the history. — Dana Spiotta