Dinan Quotes & Sayings

The greatest benefit of negative capability - the true power of negative thinking - is that it lets the mystery back in. — Oliver Burkeman

By the time he graduates, projected to be by his thirtieth birthday, Wheeler's transcript will be a meme used to scare children into studying harder. — Kurt Dinan

We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde. — Eva Herzigova

I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've probably written as many humor stories as superhero stories. — Stan Lee

So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and giver her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. — Amy Tan

Your money should become active, not passive. — Sunday Adelaja

If you accept the existence of advertising, you accept a system designed to persuade and to dominate minds by interfering in people's thinking patterns. You also accept that the system will be used by the sorts of people who like to influence people and are good at it. No person who did not wish to dominate others would choose to use advertising, or choosing it, succeed in it. So the basic nature of advertising and all technologies created to serve it will be consistent with this purpose, will encourage this behaviour in society, and will tend to push social evolution in this direction. — Jerry Mander

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind. — Giovanni Ruffini

Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us. — Charles A. Reich

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there. — Alexandra Fuller

My life was wailing like a beautiful prayer, the moments stretching into hours, the days to years. I could see now that it was possible to live a long life poorly, or a short life well, and that at any moment one might shift their position and, after years of hibernation, decide to crawl out of the den and live. — Kim Dinan

People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us. — Michelle Rodriguez

The lord has already provided everything that we need and all the necessary conditions needed to help us to succeed — Sunday Adelaja

God gives wings to those who will accept them. — Vanessa A. Jackson Austin

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy. — Izaak Walton

Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker's wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled. — Anthony Doerr

She'd come home with me to act as my barrier for Family Friday-or as i liked to refer it, Dinner for the Damned. — Katie McGarry

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer. — John Burnside

Her fingers travel back to the cathedral spire. South to the Gate of Dinan. All evening she has been marching her fingers around the model, waiting for her great-uncle Etienne, who owns this house, who went out the previous night while she slept, and who has not returned. And now it is night again, another revolution of the clock, and the whole block is quiet, and she cannot sleep. — Anthony Doerr