Ciee Portland Quotes & Sayings

When I think of whisper, I think of tenderness, gentleness, beauty. And that was God's voice. The hard part with whispers, though, is we have to be listening for them. They are just loud enough that only the people listening will hear and those who are distracted won't. — Jefferson Bethke

I would walk until I had walked all the life out of me, and when I fell, I would die that much closer to home. — Nando Parrado

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. — Jeanette Winterson

The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor. — W. H. Auden

I smiled at him. Not even Wyatt would have known how to be this honorable when talking about a girl that had hurt him. — Laura Anderson Kurk

You get more out of doing a web series than a pilot, in some ways, especially when we were interviewing for writers. They had already seen what our show looked like, rather than something that we wrote that doesn't get picked up and they never see it. — Jillian Bell

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies. — Iris Murdoch

I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again. — Mara Wilson

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service. — Ronald Reagan

The gospel declares, because of Christ's finished work for you, you already have all the approval, all the security, all the love, all the worth, and all the rescue you long for and that you desperately look for in a thousand places, all of which are infinitely smaller than Jesus. — Tullian Tchividjian

Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens. — James Madison

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing. — Leonard Bernstein

I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind. — John Wilmot

The owls are nothing to the rumours that are flying around. — J.K. Rowling