Inkpot Paper Quotes & Sayings

To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light. — Coventry Patmore

To run a successful organization," I say, "you must learn to manage people's energy, including your own. — Jon Gordon

When the "deity" of the other is deflated, either because it is exhausted or because one becomes accustomed to living with a "god" or a "goddess," there is a terrific sense of ennui and boredom. — Fulton J. Sheen

It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted. — Sonia Sotomayor

Without realizing it, I had said goodbye to traditional employment. I never punched a clock again. I made my own time and my own money. — Patti Smith

A wonderful man, Ivan Ivanovich! He has a great love of melons. They're his favorite food. As soon as he finishes dinner and goes out to the gallery in nothing but his shirt, he immediately tells Gapka to bring two melons. Then he cuts them up himself, collects the seeds in a special piece of paper, and begins to eat. Then he tells Gapka to bring the inkpot and himself, with his own hand, writes on the paper with the seeds: "This melon was eaten on such-and-such date." If there was some guest at the time, then: "with the participation of so-and-so. — Nikolai Gogol

I won't make a movie for money ever again. — Ryan Phillippe

Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture of appetite and altruism, as that group of avocations known as outdoor recreation. It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature. But wherein lies the goodness, and what can be done to encourage its pursuit? — Aldo Leopold

Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were. — William Golding

Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff. — Mike Thompson

I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else. — Inez Haynes Irwin