Eddie Garcia Quotes & Sayings

Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. — Hermann Hesse

I once thought that The Bridges Ablaze would be that masterpiece. I'm not so sure it matters much anymore. You must learn this while you are still young. Live in the crux of the present. And write to explain the world to yourself and to others. Look forward only to the summer of your first convertible. Look forward only if what's in front of you is a mirror. Because one day you'll be so busy looking backward, and everything will feel like winter. If you still don't get it, pare, let me make it abundantly clear. Just write and write justly. Ezra Pound be damned. Poets lie though beautifully. Don't make things new, make them whole. — Miguel Syjuco

If the only prayer you ever say is thank you, it is enough. — Meister Eckhart

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is. — A.S. Byatt

Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread. — Patrick Modiano

I never had a good answer to Mom's question. 'If I don't remember, will I have been here at all?' But maybe her question was flawed. Maybe it doesn't matter what you remember. Maybe if someone else remembers and speaks your name, you were here. — Sally Hepworth

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses (Neh. 4:14). — Douglas Wilson

Nora Ephron accidentally ruined a lot of lives. — Chuck Klosterman

I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Of course you are peculiar. If the world continues its present trend, and if you walk in obedience to the doctrines and principles of this church, you may become even more peculiar in the eyes of others. — Gordon B. Hinckley