Kingsolver Portal Quotes & Sayings

Winston Niles Rumfoord was something else again - morally, spatially, socially, sexually, and electrically. — Kurt Vonnegut

I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding. — Richard King

I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill. — Joseph O'Connor

Blitz to V-E Day. After the war was over, the novelist John Hersey invented a new kind of journalism, modelled on the techniques of fiction, in his report about the atomic-bomb attack on Hiroshima, which filled an entire issue of the magazine in the summer of 1946. That June, Ross wrote to Flanner, with a touch of rue, "Probably the magazine will never get back to where it was." The war took The New Yorker out of the city and into the world. — Anonymous

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too. — Hattie Morahan

If you always look forward, will you go straight? In order to do so, you have to look to your sides and rear and check the traffic signs. And you have to ask for directions from other people. — Lee Eun-sung

Ignorance is bliss-Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions. — Stephen Colbert

I think poets are people who are like this; for whatever reason you feel psychological exile because you're always an outsider... — Natasha Trethewey

The universe is big, but life is bigger! — Cixin Liu

Here's the thing about home: you can create it most anywhere, as long as you gather your people around you. — Shannon Hale

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. — H.G.Wells

For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them. MATTHEW 18:20 OCTOBER 14 Prayer can change your life. I strongly recommend that you learn the art or science of prayer and put it to work in your life. Now this may seem to you to be just one more religious idea, without much life or sparkle to it. But that is where you would be wrong. It is the way to life itself. When I say this of prayer I do not speak of the mere mumbling of words. I do not mean formal affirmations either, although formal prayers sometimes help and some formal prayers are touched with the glory of God. What I mean is a deep, fundamental, powerful relationship of the individual to God, whereby his whole mind and heart become changed and he receives power from God within himself. I have seen such prayer change the lives of many. God's peace deeply imbedded in your mind can often have a more tranquilizing and healing effect upon nerves and tension than medicine. God's peace is itself medicinal. — Norman Vincent Peale