Hedgebrook Writers Quotes & Sayings

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that. — Glen Hansard

My mom was a model, and her laid-back but put-together sensibility really rubbed off on me. — Tony Parker

It is not so much being all that you dream of becoming as it is un-becoming all that is covering your being. — Sepi

At your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you've ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered. — Cecelia Ahern

Turns out brain injuries are hard to live with." He paused. "Or even just be around. People don't like when they're lives are upended by something they can't see." Caden — Tijan

Let anyone speak hundreds of things against you, do not resent by giving a bitter reply.
If you tolerate such things, you will certainly be happy.
If anybody wants any money from you, and you are not inclined to give, do not give. But do not bark at him like a Dog. — Sai Baba

The first time I saw you at the basement, I was fascinated. At the time I didn't understand why. But now I understand. I understand by being with you even only for a while. You accept your fate and fight. You even fight alone in that basement. I was mortified. How pathetic. I'm sick of myself who kept on running away. From that time on, you became my goal. You became a special person. — Tooru Hayama

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people. — Neil Armstrong

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory! — Morton Feldman

Some part of me believed, unassailably, and wordlessly and perhaps with a flick of justice, that they had sent me away because they were afraid of me. Like some monstrously deformed child who should never have lived beyond infancy, or a conjoined twin whose other half died under the knife, I had- simply by surviving-become a freak of nature. — Tana French

New day, new delight. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I would rather have someone read my diary than look at my iPod playlists. — Mindy Kaling

A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don't start falling off. The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don't let up. If you're always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong. Anyone who questions the legality of the decision to wiretap thousands of Americans unlawfully is attacked, as either an enabler of terrorists or a bitter partisan trying to distract a president at war. — Bob Barr

And if there is anything that appears like a miracle, the only explanation is that a scientific reason for it has not been discovered as yet. — Amish Tripathi

She walks to a table
She walk to table
She is walking to a table
She walk to table now
What difference does it make
What difference it make
In Nature, no completeness
No sentence really complete thought
Language, like woman,
Look best when free, undressed. — Wang Ping