Judith Dinsmore Quotes & Sayings

I was a wicked pirate assassin on my way to kill. Arrgh! — Bobby Adair

Now he knew his way around a ward-and-shield or two. He could chuck a magic missile with the best of them. He was a damn one-man magic-missile crisis. — Lev Grossman

What I've realised is that when I walk into a club, I don't feel good, I feel uncomfortable. I wonder what to do, I look for my drink ... it's not necessarily an enjoyable experience, so why would I put myself through that? — Shiloh Fernandez

All my work is much more peaceful than I am. — Maya Lin

The cosmic conflict between good and evil is joined; chaotic sea and demonic sea monster verses the morally outraged man, Captain Ahab. In this boat, however, there is one man who does nothing. He doesn't hold an oar; he doesn't perspire; he doesn't shout. He is languid in the crash and the cursing. This man is the harpooner, quiet and poised, waiting. And then this sentence: 'To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooners of his world must start to their feet out of idleness, and not out of toil.' Was this the confirmation to cultivate what I had named an 'unbusy pastor'? — Eugene H. Peterson

I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world. — Seneca The Younger

Around here ... we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things. — Walt Disney Company

It is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make Man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May
Although it fall and die that night;
It was the plant and flower of Light.
In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures life may perfect be (Ben Jonson) — Aidan Chambers

People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: 'It's just the way I sound when I sing.' — Michael Franks

Then the 1956 Peace Prize went to Eisenhower and Khrushchev for agreeing not to build the hydrogen bomb. That agreement was now also called the Szilard Treaty. Today the H-bomb was a threshold no one dared cross without exciting hostile moves by all other powers. — Gregory Benford

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. — Norman Ralph Augustine

We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing. — David Levithan

Love someone because their soul inspires you, not because you're interested in the relief from loneliness and companionship they can provide. Anybody can do that. Not just anybody can show you to yourself. — Brianna Wiest