Kanawha Quotes & Sayings

Students out of bed! Students in the corridors!" "They're supposed to be, you blithering idiot! — J.K. Rowling

I played high school golf, I played amateur golf and I started getting officers. I was playing pretty good, won amateur tournaments as a junior, and the whole thing. — Arnold Palmer

A big part of serious fiction's purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves ... I strongly suspect a big part of real art fiction's job is to aggravate this sense of entrapment and loneliness and death in people, to move people to countenance it. — David Foster Wallace

Here's the real secret: you can fulfill the commands of the Bible better by falling in love with God than by trying to obey him. It's not that your obedience isn't significant or relevant; it's simply not the center of the wheel. No, the hub of your life is your relationship with God. Your behavior and obedience radiate like spokes from the center of your life and allow you to roll forward. When you try to make your eternal behavior the hub on which you turn, you get stuck. Forward motion must be fueled by love. — Chris Hodges

The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with. — Paul Fleischman

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me. — Katherine Heigl

Punishment is justice for the unjust. — Saint Augustine

I did well in school. I had lots of honors, so I thought I was quite smart. — Frederick Lenz

I like girls who really don't care what other people are thinking - girls who are a little goofy. I think that's sexy. — Ryan Lochte

The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind. — Kahlil Gibran

Living for others will give us satisfaction, happiness, and joy. — Sunday Adelaja

My mother was mad, but I was not. My father was old, but I was young. Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn't be given, wouldn't be taken, but chose my man and my fate. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts. — Marilyn Hacker