Kinuko Sketchbook Quotes & Sayings

Brother Lawrence expressed the highest moral wisdom when he testified that if he stumbled and fell he turned at once to God and said, 'O Lord, this is what you may expect of me if You leave me to myself.' He then accepted forgiveness, thanked God, and gave himself no further concerns about the matter. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

My heart is kerosene, my mind a match. I'm seconds away from igniting. — Sarah Noffke

I like to make movies the way people made movies in the '70s, where they lived and died with these stories, and cared about them, and went to war for them, and they all said something they wanted to say. — Judd Apatow

Facing the sagging middle when writing a novel, while inevitable, may be
overcome by pre-planning. I divide my collection of proposed scenes into three acts, each scene inciting tension that builds toward the final crisis in Act Three. If by Act Two the emotional river isn't spilling over the banks, I reassess the plot so that once the writing is flowing I don't slide into a dry creek. The central character should be struggling to navigate life well into the end of Act One, even if her fiercest antagonist is only from within. — Patricia Hickman

We will all lose everything, and perhaps then, by the very shape of our pain, we will earn it back. — Patrick Holland

We do wrong to seek peace in Nature; we should rather seek the nobler sort of war; and see all the trees as green banners. — G.K. Chesterton

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within. — Bell Hooks

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The night you gave me my birthday party ... you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a radiant night, a night of soft conspiracy and the trees agreed that it was all going to be for the best. — Zelda Fitzgerald

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side. — Janine Di Giovanni