Burled Quotes & Sayings

if she was over-sure of meeting her, that would be the time she would not come. — Joan G. Robinson

The crazy ones are mostly crazy because love made them that way. — Charles Baxter

Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know? — Kevin Costner

Is he all right?" Jade asked Sterns.
He Swooned"
I know he swooned," Jade replied. — Julie Garwood

May the love at Christmas be with us throughout coming year. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The central feature of the practice of meditation and hard work known as Zen is that, as Matthiessen says, it "has no patience with mysticism, far less the occult." Nor does it have any time with moralism, the prescriptions or distortions we would impose on the world, obscuring it from our view. It asks, it insists rather, that we take this moment for what it is, undistracted, and not cloud it with needless worries of what might have been or fantasies of what might come to be. It is, essentially, a training in the real ... "the Universe itself is the scripture of Zen." Pico Iyer from introduction. — Peter Matthiessen

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in. — Alec Soth

Towering pines and hemlocks, was it? I thought, clambering over the burled knots of a fallen tree. The monstrous trunks rose so high that the lowest limbs started twenty feet above my head. Longfellow had no idea. — Diana Gabaldon

Man has got to take charge of Man ...
Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has no 'take-it-or-leave-it' nonsense. A real education makes the patient what it wants infallibly: whatever he or his parents try to do about it. Of course, it'll have to be mainly psychological at first. But we'll get on to biochemical conditioning int he end and direct manipulation of the brain ... — C.S. Lewis

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must. — Edward Abbey

And sometimes she would dream again of being Namakaokahai'i, her waves rolling across burled coral beds, scattering moonlight, cresting higher and higher the farther she traveled over the reef. She was a colossus of water and motion soaring toward the black crescent of 'Awahuua Bay, her soul perched on the curling lip of the wave, riding it in the only way she could now; she felt the mana, the power in her waves, felt the rumble in her ocean depths ... — Alan Brennert

When I get older, I will be stronger — K'naan

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that that must community want for all it's children. — John Dewey