Casebook Legacy Quotes & Sayings

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. — Lascelles Abercrombie

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.' — Nicole Kidman

Maybe we'll all be killed by nanobots hours after you read this sentence. — Randall Munroe

When you get saved, you get saved not because you deserve it, but because you simply let God save you and because you confess your own poor sinful state and your inability to save yourself. — John R. Rice

If it is money, you will choose a place for your apprenticeship that offers the biggest paycheck. Inevitably, in such a place you will feel greater pressures to prove yourself worthy of such pay, often before you are really ready. — Robert Greene

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing. — Orson Scott Card

After I'd drawn the grasses, I started seeing them. Whereas if you'd just photographed them, you wouldn't be looking as intently as you do when you are drawing, so it wouldn't affect you that much. — Martin Gayford

Excitement is never comfortable. When it comes, you just hang on and hope you don't fall off. — Karen Hawkins

All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business he'd ever witnessed waking - the brilliant pastels of the last light overhead, some clouds high and white, catching daylight from beyond the valley, others ribbed and gray and pink, the lowest of them rubbing the peaks of Bussard and Queen mountains; and beneath this wondrous sky the black valley, utterly still, the train moving through it making a great noise but unable to wake this dead world. — Denis Johnson

The first time the Deity came down to earth, he brought life and death; when he came the second time, he brought hell. — Mark Twain

I never thought I could write fiction. — Jonathan Galassi

...with the fine instinct of a lover, he felt that it would be best for her to hear his voice before she saw him. — George Eliot

With the strong women I write about, I want to create a sense of strong possibilities. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

With 'Kids React,' it started, hilariously enough, by thinking, 'Why, teenage girls seem to love 'Twilight' so much!' We went from wanting to ask them ourselves to coming up with the larger and more universal concept of a bunch of Kids reacting to viral videos. — Rafi Fine

As gardeners-without-borders we must ask ourselves bigger questions like: Where did these materials arise and at what cost to the place that begot them? Of course the synthetic fertilizer loses on every score; it's not even in the running. It gives us no answers; it ignores the questions. — Will Bonsall