Hofseth Cumberland Quotes & Sayings

I don't have much of an imagination, but I have a mind bank of details, which I play with. It's how I daydream, so writing like that is natural for me. — Sefi Atta

I can only think god is responsible for passion,for god gives us bodies with which to express it and heart in which to hold it — Julie Anne Long

Liars often set their own traps. — Aesop

You can't retire to weakness
you've got to learn to control strength. — Wallace Stegner

But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so? — Jean-Baptiste Say

Big sisters and brothers ... I am telling you, it never changes. — Janet Jackson

I don't have faith, I have experience. — Joseph Campbell

People such as inventors searching for new material, make their discoveries in a state of self-forgetfulness. It is in a condition of deep intellectual concentration that this forgetfulness of the ego arises and the invention is revealed. This is also a way of developing intuition. — Ramana Maharshi

The world lures people with its temptations and attractions, masking them with a cover of pleasure — Sunday Adelaja

Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can. — Erma Bombeck

Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering. — John Green

The woman I love burns with jealousy, leaps to conclusions, cries, and turns to ice ... but when she laughs ... the world is mine. — Rumiko Takahashi

Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about ... That always worries me! — Charles M. Schulz

I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision. — Billy Collins

The true test of life isn't how you cope when everything is going in your favour; it's how you deal with things that could destroy you, if you let them. — Holly Bourne