Ghigna Quotes & Sayings

This, of course, is because today's postfeminist era is also today's postmodern era, in which supposedly everybody now knows everything about what's really going on underneath all the semiotic codes and cultural conventions, and everybody supposedly knows what paradigms everybody is operating out of, and so we're all as individuals held to be far more responsible for our sexuality, since everything we do is now unprecedentedly conscious and informed. — David Foster Wallace

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. — Charles Ghigna

The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human. — Maggie Stiefvater

We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray. — Evan Sayet

Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out. — Charles Ghigna

No reward compares to the gift of love that my son shares — Paul Rodricks

Close your eyes and look inside,
A mirror shines within;
To find where you are going,
First see where you have been. — Charles Ghigna

Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you. — Charles Ghigna

A poem is a spider web
Spun with words of wonder,
Woven lace held in place
By whispers made of thunder. — Charles Ghigna

I am justly killed with mine own treachery. — William Shakespeare

For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and inlets of the busy eastern Aegean Sea. Suddenly there were people who believed that everything was made of atoms; that human beings and other animals had sprung from simpler forms; that diseases were not caused by demons or the gods; that the Earth was only a planet going around the Sun. And that the stars were very far away. — Carl Sagan

Poems for children help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world. Humorous poems tickle the funny bone of their imaginations. — Charles Ghigna

When you write for children, don't write for children.
Write from the child in you. — Charles Ghigna

The greatest reward for a children's author is in knowing that our efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young readers with a vision and wonder of the world and themselves that may be new to them or reveal something already familiar in new and enlightening ways. — Charles Ghigna

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.. — John Steinbeck

STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE — Charles Ghigna

The question is not: How many people take you seriously? How much are you going to accomplish? Can you show some results? but: Are you in love with Jesus? — Henri Nouwen

They say that love is always blind and that explains so much, young lovers always seem so prone to use their sense of touch. — Charles Ghigna

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you. — Charles Ghigna

Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer. — Charles Ghigna