Hookfin Steve Quotes & Sayings

Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits. — H.G.Wells

Writing to impress others is the surest path to pretentious mediocrity. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

When I have no visitors over weekends, I remain the whole day in my pyjamas and eat samp. — Jennifer Crwys Williams

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure. — Gish Jen

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind. — Taylor Swift

We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy. — Mark Helprin

Thank God that we are called to seek his face and not his Facebook. — John Ortberg

But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life. — William Carlos Williams

The 'advancing man' in medicine, who holds to a clear mental image of himself as successful, and who obeys the laws of faith, purpose, and gratitude, will cure every curable case he undertakes. — Wallace D. Wattles

I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing. — Samuel Hopkins Adams