Inken Von Quotes & Sayings

Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools. — Adam Fletcher

I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go on to take more risks to create someone really distinct. — Jim Parsons

Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane. — Kate Atkinson

Just as evolution is a series of trial-and-error experiments, life is full of false starts and inevitable stumbling. The key to success is the ability to extract the lessons out of each of these experiences and to move on with that new knowledge. For — Tina Seelig

We see things not as they are, we see them as WE are. — Morrie Camhi

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age. — George Bernard Shaw

She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now. — Marisha Pessl

We each have a story to tell, I know; so let each one take his turn. — Maud Lindsay