Hoeschler Award Quotes & Sayings

'Peanuts' is a life-long influence, going back to before I could even read. — Adrian Tomine

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich ... — Michael Lewis

Buddhism is the study of how to be immeasurably happy. — Frederick Lenz

And the mist of snow, as he had foreseen, was still on it - a ghost of snow falling in the bright sunlight, softly and steadily floating and turning and pausing, soundlessly meeting the snow that covered, as with a transparent mirage, the bare bright cobbles. He loved it - he stood still and loved it. Its beauty was paralyzing - beyond all words, all experience, all dream. No fairy-story he had ever read could be compared with it - none had ever given him this extraordinary combination of ethereal loveliness with a something else, unnameable, which was just faintly and deliciously terrifying.
("Silent Snow, Secret Snow") — Conrad Aiken

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite. — Friedrich Schiller

Most of the strangers we fall in love with seem to act as strangers rather than being strangers. — M.F. Moonzajer

I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice. — Russell B. Long

The lukewarm Christian can accomplish nothing with a whole life in which to do it. If you have lived for sin and self ... your witness will have [a] telling effect on all who have known you. — Billy Graham

Do not hold on to circumstances — Sunday Adelaja

Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it. — Glenn Beck

Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able. — Carl Lewis

Murphy's Law; When someone says 'It's not the money, it's the principle,' nine times out of ten, it's the money. — Mitchell Symons

61I am prepared to ... assert that inspiration has something in common with a convulsion, and that every sublime thought is accompanied by a more or less violent nervous shock which has its repercussions in the very core of the brain. — Walter Benjamin