Kermode Lovely Fifi Quotes & Sayings

Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do, they write for two hours, then pitch quoits, and then go back to their writing. But certainly more than the mere mechanical alternation is involved. — Rollo May

A lot of conservative writers have twisted that argument in the conversation around Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and said this is identity politics as played by liberals. And that I think what they're trying to say is that progressives are the first to say. — Dahlia Lithwick

One gives way to the temptation, only to rise from it again, afterwards, with a great eagerness to reestablish one's dignity, as if it were a tombstone to place on the grave of one's shame, and a monument to hide and sign the memory of our weaknesses. Everybody's in the same case. Some folks haven't the courage to say certain things, that's all!
THE STEP-DAUGHTER: All appear to have the courage to do them though. — Luigi Pirandello

I learned that not everyone values life like we do in America, or the rights that are endowed to every human being by a loving God. — Rick Perry

There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write. — R.A. Salvatore

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap. — Richard Reeves

There were too many of my happiest days and they all revolved around him. But I could only think of the moment Xander's tears were his heaviest and his words incredibly pained. — Ashlan Thomas

Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul ... My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul. — Vincent Van Gogh

The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God's supreme word to us is life; our highest worship of Him is love for the living. — Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity. — Anna Quindlen

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it. — Norman Granz

When we tend to the areas of life that are important to us, when we make those things a priority, that's when we will flourish in those areas. — Victoria Osteen

A cigarette, a sip, a question; breathing, drinking and asking, she demonstrates all the basic applications for the human mouth. — Chuck Palahniuk