Fritiof Fryxell Quotes & Sayings

The farther away, the closer the home becomes. — Dejan Stojanovic

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice. — James Levine

Maybe you should just admit that you're crazy about me," he said, leaning in to kiss her again.
"And why would you want me to do that?" she asked, still smiling.
"Because I'm playing for keeps, my little grasshopper. — R.L. Mathewson

Am I such a slave as that? Dependent on a man to complete me! I thought I couldn't be anything without him- I can be my own creator! — Nan Shepherd

Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl. — Augusten Burroughs

Consolation of music is different from the one of words. It starts from the inside ... It cries with you instead of telling you to stop crying. — Ji-Hae Park

As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to carry religion out of the temples into the fields and sheep pastures, onto the roadsides and the banks of the rivers, into the houses of sinners and publicans, into the town and the wilderness, toward the membership of all that is here. Well, you can read and see what you think. — Wendell Berry

I didn't work for any newspapers in college, never worked for any newspaper before 'The Washington Post'. — Michael Dirda

It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder. — Jenna Elfman

Thus the vocation of the baptized person is a simple thing: it is to live from day to day, whatever the day brings, in this extraordinary unity, in this reconciliation with all people and all things, in this knowledge that death has no more power, in this truth of the resurrection. It does not really matter exactly what a Christian does from day to day. What matters is that whatever one does is done in honor of one's own life, given to one by God and restored to one in Christ, and in honor of the life into which all humans and all things are called.
The only thing that really matters to live in Christ instead of death — William Stringfellow

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst — Susan Cheever