John Mumford Quotes & Sayings

At night the years come back and perch around my bed like ghosts. — Walker Percy

I love you' is validated with action. — Jonah Books

The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator. — Jonathan Franzen

Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, "I should make that call", but I put it off. Because there's something pleasurable about not talking. But then I love talking, so it's not that. But sometimes it can be nice. It's not like I sit here philosophizing, because I've no talent for that. It's just this thing about silence that's so wonderful. — Ingmar Bergman

If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it. — Pema Chodron

Flounder, flounder, in the sea, Come, I pray thee, here to me; For my wife, good Ilsabil, Wills not as I'd have her will. — HarperPerennial Classics

I m not about to tell him that I am just like Anna and Emma, an adulteress. My books are my secret lovers, the friends I run to to get away from the daily drudgeries of life, to try out something new, and yes, to get away, for a few hours, from him. He doesn't need to know that my books are the affairs I don't have. — Sara Nelson

the wind, putting all of her strength into — Terri Reid

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms. — Sophocles

It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be! — Horace Bushnell

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions. — Mark Twain

I am starting to get into this whole idea of caring about what I wear. There was a time in my life when I could not care less about fashion. — James Marsden

I was thrilled to win a Tony in 2005 for 'Spamalot'. — Eric Idle

Dream Big. Start small. Act now. — Robin Sharma