Danny Wuerffel Quotes & Sayings

They twisted even decent sin to shapes not to be named:
Men were ashamed of honour; but we were not ashamed. — G.K. Chesterton

Jaxon gave me a compliment. I was sure there'd be winged pigs up there somewhere. — Chris Cannon

Don't imagine that the art of poetry is any simpler than the art of music, or that you can please the expert before you have spent at least as much effort on the art of verse as the average piano teacher spends on the art of music.
Be influenced by as many great artists as you can, but have the decency either to acknowledge the debt outright, or try to conceal it.
Don't allow "influence" to mean merely that you mop up the particular decorative vocabulary of some one or two poets who you happen to admire. — Ezra Pound

He looked at Roark and saw the calmest, kindest face - a face without a hint of pity. It did not look like the countenance of men who watch the agony of another with a secret pleasure, uplifted by the sight of a beggar who needs their compassion; it did not bear the cast of the hungry soul that feeds upon another's humiliation. — Ayn Rand

After reading some of my stories, I once had a friend say to me, "I'd love to spend five minutes in your head to see what's going on in there." I warned them, "If you spent five seconds in my mind you'd probably run out screaming and never speak to me again. — Mark W. Boyer

Hubert Humphrey's wife is said to have advised him: Darling, for a speech to be immortal it need not be interminable. — Peggy Noonan

Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. — Dean Koontz

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us. — Ovid

Pope Gregory believed that successful pastoral leadership required a balance between the contemplation of the isolated ascetic and the action of the well-trained administrator. — Gregory The Great

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate. — Sakyong Mipham