La Carestia Quotes & Sayings

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication. — Karen Russell

For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment. — John Wooden

I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever. — R.J. Dennis

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains. — Gale Norton

Science is of value because it can produce something. — Richard P. Feynman

When they ran up to him, Percy said, 'Hey,' like they were just meeting for lunch or something.
'You're alive!' Frank marveled.
Percy frowned. 'The fall? That was nothing. I fell twice that far from the St. Louis Arch.'
'You did what?' Hazel asked. — Rick Riordan

Pay attention to your dreams; when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness. — Barbara Kingsolver

Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there. — Rumi

Take solace in that, regardless of the fact that the love you had in your mind was lost, it was fairer than any, and you can take that with you forever. — Taylor Nadeau

You see, books had been happening to me. — Langston Hughes

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. — Story Musgrave

Norris didn't cry, but he was apt to puke on them, the way he had puked on homer gamache that time he had found homer sprawled in a ditch out by homeland cemetary, beaten to death with his own artificial arm. — Stephen King

As worship leaders we might use music as a tool, but music is only ever just that - a tool with which to encourage lives to be renewed and awakened to God. — Reuben Morgan

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know. — David Duchovny

I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people. — Penny Marshall