Desilva Author Quotes & Sayings

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God. — Reinhold Niebuhr

If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life. — Henri Pirenne

It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation. — Gaston Caperton

We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home. — Mona Simpson

You want to have enough of a profile to be able to do all the work you can, but at the same time you want to have your own space. But there are a lot of actors who achieve it, a lot of movie stars even, people like Emily Watson and Cate Blanchett. They seem to be able to carry on with their lives and still produce wonderful, high-profile work. — Anne-Marie Duff

The story thread suddenly dropped in a hopeless snarl, just as he was about to get it through the needle's eye of the first line. — Cornell Woolrich

I have the sick fantasy that whatever I see at the movies is going to happen to me at home. My bladder capacity increased tenfold after I saw "The Shining" because I was sure that if I went into the bathroom late at night, there would be a dead woman in the bathtub. — Bailey White

Only God is awesome. — Shane Claiborne

My mum always said things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end. If not always in the ways we expect".
-Luna lovegood( Harry potter and the order of the phenoix) — J.K. Rowling

Is this true or only clever? — Augustine Birrell

Sometimes I'll get a premise, you know, for a book. In fact, I get those quite often. And I don't commit to it until I really know the voice of that character. It's almost as if the character is speaking to me. — Kimberly Willis Holt

No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it. — John Mayer

Grain grows best in shit... — Ursula K. Le Guin