Fogbound Knits Quotes & Sayings

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them. — Marlene Dietrich

Social movement in this country has come when people get together,' said Carol Sutton of Norwalk, Conn., the president of a teachers union. It begins in the streets.' Climate marches — Anonymous

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones. — Jodi Picoult

Writing is drawing the essence of what we know out of the shadows. That is what writing is about. Not what happens there, not what actions are played out there, but the there itself. There, that is writing's location and aim. But how to get there? — Karl Ove Knausgard

Do you know the reason why poetry and philosophy are nothing but dead-letter nowadays? It is because they have severed themselves from life. In Greece, ideas went hand-in-hand with life; so that the artist's life was already a poetic realisation, the philosopher's life a putting into action of his philosophy; in this way, as both philosophy and poetry took part in life, instead of remaining unacquainted with each other, philosophy provided food for poetry, and poetry gave expression to philosophy - and the result was admirably persuasive. Nowadays beauty no longer acts; action no longer desires to be beautiful; and wisdom works in a sphere apart. — Andre Gide

My husband is my best friend; he knows my sensibilities. — Vera Farmiga

I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate. — Winston Churchill

I mean, I wanted to shove a pocket knife into each of his tires within the first fifteen minutes of meeting him. — Christina Lauren

Even if he did explain it, no one would believe him because no one would understand him. That's the downside to being a genius - just because you understand something doesn't mean anyone else will. — Trenton Lee Stewart

Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate acts of alienation. — Orlan

If you respect your body enough to put modest clothes on, then more people will respect you as a person, — Sadie Robertson

A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control. — Farid Al-Din Attar

The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum. — Taylor Hawkins

And so in the heart of such a believer is a sort of paradise. That is the paradise that Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy on his soul, spoke of when he said: 'Truly, there is a Heaven in this world, [and] whoever does not enter it, will not enter the Heaven of the next world.'
And in that heaven, complete peace is not something of a moment. It is a state, eternal. — Yasmin Mogahed

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer. — Colin Wilson