Elvie Pump Quotes & Sayings

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas. — Helen Keller

If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination. — Samuel Johnson

The odds against this were tremendous, but Edith was not interested in the odds; people who thought about odds were unheroic and would never achieve anything. 20 — Barry Unsworth

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent. — George Orwell

I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try to do is kind of do it like 'House'; write down the symptom and write down the other symptoms. Try to work backwards to figure out what the problem is. — Cassandra Clare

I don't reckon men are supposed to think," Sally said philosophically, as the pile of hemp rope grew at her feet. "That's why God gave 'em big muscles. — Mary Connealy

We must give our children back their ability to see the divine; we must help them to return to their original innocence where they saw God everywhere they look.
They saw the divine in the flowers and the insects of the world, they saw God in the animals and the clouds, and we have stolen that ability from them, give it back to them!
Tell them they do not have to wait for an afterlife to experience the divine, because the divine is here with us, within each of us and all around us.
Can't you see? — Martin Suarez

Who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it? — Mark Twain

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor. — William Shatner