James Shaver Woodsworth Quotes & Sayings

Truly stupid wizards have the life expectancy of a glass hammer. — Terry Pratchett

I felt a wonderful lightness in my body, a ridiculous happiness, it seemed to come from nowhere. — Zadie Smith

My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents. — Mario Batali

It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes. — John Wooden

People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don't plan not to. — Andy Stanley

You know how you secretly worry that this is it, that it's all downhill from here? I know you do. You worry that the children will turn into hulking criminals; their scalps will turn odorless. You lie in bed now during a thunderstorm, two sleeping, moonlit faces pressed against you, fragrant scalps intoxicating you, the rain on the roof like hoofbeats, heartbeats - and the calamity of raising young children falls away because this is all you ever wanted. Now you boo-hoo noiselessly into the kids' hair because life is so beautiful and you don't want it to change. Enjoy it. But let me tell you - you won't believe it, but let me tell you anyway - you will watch them sleeping still and always: the illuminated down of their cheeks, their dark puffs of lips and dear, dark wedges of eyelashes, and you will feel exactly the way you feel now. Only better. — Catherine Newman