Engelmann Woods Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to give my opponent the satisfaction of watching me celebrate, which would make it look like a big deal that I beat him. — Brent Metcalf

Memory is a means of possession, but eventually, the greatest grace is found in letting go. — Michael Perry

The mind of man plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps. PROVERBS 16:9 — Charles R. Swindoll

Shirley took the view that the past disintegrated if you never mentioned it. — J.K. Rowling

When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children's books. — Roald Dahl

She was like that, excited and delighted by little things, crossing her fingers before any remotely unpredictable event, like tasting a new flavor of ice cream, or dropping a letter in a mailbox. It was a quality he did not understand. It made him feel stupid, as if the world contained hidden wonders he could not anticipate, or see. He looked at her face, which, it occurred to him, had not grown out of its girlhood, the eyes untroubled, the pleasing features unfirm, as if they still had to settle into some sort of permanent expression. Nicknamed after a nursery rhyme, she had yet to shed a childhood endearment. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been. — Billie Holiday

Such is the blessing of this republic. We are not confronted by one czar of the size of an elephant, but by a hundred thousand czars, as small as mosquitoes, but equally disagreeable and annoying. — Various