Doie Shanklin Quotes & Sayings

When we were starting our community a bunch of older Benedictine nuns said to us, "If you have any questions or want to pick our brains, please do - we've been doing community for about 1,500 years together so we've learned a few things." — Shane Claiborne

Sit beside me. What happened to the girl who struggled with the fact that she'd killed — Robert J. Crane

Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime. — Natalie Goldberg

How can I leave my mark on the world, I thought, unless I get out there first and see it? — Phil Knight

I think all of the secrets of the universe are revealed in history. We understand who we are by understanding where we've been and why we are the way we are, and where we come from. — Matt Barr

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. — John Muir

It had been a dreadful miscalculation, she saw that now: that all of them should be unhappy, so that he should not be disgraced. — Jo Baker

To Laurent, in the same voice, he said, 'Calm down.'
Laurent said, 'I wasn't finished.'
'Finished what?' Reducing every man in the room? Jord isn't any kind of match for you in this mood, and you know it. Calm down.'
Laurent gave him the kind of look a swordsman gives as he decides whether or not to slice his unarmed enemy in half. — C.S. Pacat

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be. Mario Vargas Llosa — Mario Vargas-Llosa