Knoeller Quotes & Sayings

For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These chains must be broken to free us for a new love that places us in another gravitational field where we can enter new life. — Pope Benedict XVI

For nature then to me was all in all. — William Wordsworth

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right. — Harold Pinter

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently. — Ai Weiwei

Every poem is a love poem, my dad had said. I'd always thought he meant romantic love...but there were so many kinds of great love: mother and daughter love. Father love. Best friend love. Aunt love. Mother's best friend love. Friendish friendesque love. Love for the living and love for the dead. Love for who you really are, for those weird parts of yourself that only a few people understand. Love for things you yearn to do, for putting words in a page. Love for traveling, for people and seeing new ways to live. Love for the world... — Margo Rabb

Verbal fluency is the product of hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is hte product of hours spent repeating scales." p. 26 — Stanley Fish

I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball. — Matt Kemp

It is so easy now for the wife to be patient and kind to the daughter. She will never love anyone or anything more. Never. It is official. — Jenny Offill

I've always been loud. — Pauly D

Q: Why do you think that people are so protective of their egos? Why is it so hard to let go of one's ego? A: People are afraid of the emptiness of space, or the absence of company, the absence of a shadow. It could be a terrifying experience to have no one to relate to, nothing to relate with. The idea of it can be extremely frightening, though not the real experience. It is generally a fear of space, a fear that we will not be able to anchor ourselves to any solid ground, that we will lose our identity as a fixed and solid and definite thing. This could be very threatening. — Chogyam Trungpa

I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. — Richard Paul Evans

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. — Mignon McLaughlin

The most valuable gift you can give to humanity is a good example. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha