Keiler Bier Quotes & Sayings

I came, one evening before sunset, down into a valley, where I was to rest. In the course of my descent to it, by the winding track along the mountain-side, from which I saw it shining far below, I think some long-unwonted sense of beauty and tranquillity, some softening influence awakened by its peace, moved faintly in my breast. I remember pausing once, with a kind of sorrow that was not all oppressive, not quite despairing. I remember almost hoping that some better change was possible within me. I came into the valley, as the evening sun was — Charles Dickens

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States. — Jonathan Kozol

University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling. — Francis Cornford

Deryn was quite astounding, really, and entirely worth throwing away an empire for. — Scott Westerfeld

You structure your system to fit him if he's going to be your guy. — Forrest Gregg

It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time. — Sidney Sheldon

When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music. — Moby

Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able. — George R R Martin

I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door. — Nick Hornby

Most every old civilizations looks at others--members of the same species but not of the same tribe--as wild men. It's a common rationalization, because when you reduce someone else to a level of something like an animal, it makes them easier to kill. — Gene Doucette

[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can assume forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to a single shining bone cast up by the sea. — Loren Eiseley

One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely. — Lev Shestov

This is an opportunity to walk away from the game knowing that I've given it all that I can. — Donald Driver

Every story is an act of trust between a writer and a reader: each story, in the end, is social. Whatever a writer sets down can help or harm a community of which he or she is a part. When I write I can imagine a child in California wishing to give away what he's just seen- a wild animal fleeing though creosote cover in the desert, casting a bright-eyed backward glance or three lines of overheard conversation that seem to contain everything we need understand to repair the gaping rift between body and soul. I look back at that boy turning in glee beneath his pigeons and know it can take a lifetime to convey what you mean, to find the opening. You watch, you set it down. Then you try again. — Barry Lopez