Evenson Auction Quotes & Sayings

The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this. — Rick Baker

At night the bats will beat on the trees, knowing it all, seeing what they sensed all day.... — Anne Sexton

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart. — Eric Hoffer

Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable. — Donald Rumsfeld

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins. — John Scalzi

I know what it's like not to have friends. People need friends. Life's not much fun without them. — Michelle Harrison

Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage. — Craig Brewer

The brain-disease model overlooks four fundamental truths: (1) our capacity to destroy one another is matched by our capacity to heal one another. Restoring relationships and community is central to restoring well-being; (2) language gives us the power to change ourselves and others by communicating our experiences, helping us to define what we know, and finding a common sense of meaning; (3) we have the ability to regulate our own physiology, including some of the so-called involuntary functions of the body and brain, through such basic activities as breathing, moving, and touching; and (4) we can change social conditions to create environments in which children and adults can feel safe and where they can thrive. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name. — Rob Zombie

It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips. — Troian Bellisario

Humanity expects there to be vast conspiracies, even if they will not admit it in polite company. It is understood shadowy conspirators must thereby be somewhere. — Thomm Quackenbush

But once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. Once you know this is true, that the heart of man, his body and his brain, are forged in a white-hot furnace for the purpose of conflict (the struggle of creation) and that with the conflict removed, the man is a sword cutting daisies, that not privation but luxury is the wolf at the door and that the fangs of this wolf are all the little vanities and laxities that Success is heir to
why, then with this knowledge you are at least in a position of knowing where the danger lies. — Tennessee Williams

For the first time, I had looked upon victory from the place of defeat, and because the victory was not my own, and I was apart from it, I felt it all the more. It was God's victory, the victory of the continuation of the world. It would bring me nothing, swell my fortunes not a bit. It was bitter, and I would always be outside, but never have I felt a deeper pleasure, never have I been more satisfied, for even if hardly anything was left of me, the world was full. And I was not the only one. A thousand men were on the train for seven hours, and in that time I do not believe a single word was spoken. — Mark Helprin

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate. — Donella Meadows