Koponen Homestead Quotes & Sayings

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank. — Gloria Steinem

Work becomes worship when you dedicate it to God and perform it with an awareness of his presence. — Rick Warren

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the depths of his heart Vasili Andreevich knew that it could not yet be near morning, but he was growing more and more afraid, and wished both to get to know and yet to deceive himself. — Leo Tolstoy

A star has died. Elsewhere in the cosmos, in an unremarkable corner of one galactic arm, a child was born. Such is the balance of existence. — Alan Dean Foster

I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret. — George Colman The Elder

The real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet. — Christian Dior

When I'm really purring it, I feel as if my whole left side - from knee to hip to shoulder - is turning behind me as I swing through the ball. — Matt Kuchar

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art. — Bennie Wallace

I'll dream no more
by mainly mind
Not even in sleep is well resigned.
My midnight orisons said o'er,
I'll turn to rest and dream no more. — Walter Scott

One of the lines in Finn's code is that you're not to say anything about Finn being attractive to the opposite sex. I'm not sure which exact statue governs this, but it's closely related to the one that won't let you thank him.
Something about compliments and Finn don't work. — Maggie Stiefvater

Bliss, wait one second."
I took my time packing up my stuff, waiting for everyone else to leave the computer lab.
When we were alone I asked, "What's up?"
He smiled, "Nothing."
Then he pressed me into the computer table behind me and kissed me. — Cora Carmack

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image. — Michelangelo