Canivet Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off. — C.S. Lewis

I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die. — Diana Wynne Jones

My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience. He played with logic and his own inner truth. — Arthur Rubinstein

I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world. — Anthony Liccione

The more we listen to God's voice, the easier it is to recognize when He speaks to us. — Larry Burkett

The remaining, less developed characters, were still either listening or laughing. They were divided between curiosity and satisfaction. They felt happy, but did not know it. — Elias Canetti

Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right - as right as you can, anyway - it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it. If you're very lucky ... more will want to do the former than the latter. — Stephen King

A lot of young people ran away: you could do it back then just because you were bored. You didn't even need a tragedy. — Emma Cline

Cause sometimes it's hard to let the future begin! — Lorraine Hansberry

I knew that nothing stranger
had ever happened, that nothing
stranger could ever happen. — Elizabeth Bishop

The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right. — David R. Brower

Everything has a limit. — Nithyanand S

When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none. — Margaret Millar

And then his lips were on mine and we were in it, pulling away from the past and rushing fast into the future. — Renee Carlino