Lasallian Education Quotes & Sayings

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers. — William Tecumseh Sherman

This is the secret of good storytelling: to lie, but to keep the arithmetic sound. A storyteller, like any other sort of enthusiastic liar, is on an unpredictable adventure. His initial lie, his premise, will suggest many new lies of its own. The storyteller must choose among them, seeking those which are most believable, which keep the arithmetic sound. Thus does a story generate itself. — Kurt Vonnegut

Paper balls? You were throwing balled up paper at an alligator? — Gini Koch

Fuck literature. — Ernest Hemingway,

Keep the gift moving forward. — Patricia Ryan Madson

A lot of churches have not moved with the times. — Joel Osteen

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they — E.B. White

I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after. — Larry David

The other thing that's happened with writing is that I'm not afraid it will go away. Up until a couple of years ago, I feared that sitting down with paper and pencil revealed too much desire and that for such ambition I would be punished. My vocabulary would contract anorexia, ideas would be born autistic, even titles would not come to flirt with me anymore. I suppose this was tied to that internal judge, the serpent who eats her own tail. She insinuates you're not good enough; you believe her and try less, ratifying her assessment; so you try even less; and on and on. This snake survives on your dying. Finally, now, the elided words of my wisest writing teacher, the poet David Wojahn, make sense. "Be ambitious," he said, "for the work." Not for the in-dwelling editor. That bitch was impossible to please anyway. — Marsha L. Larsen

Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ. — Joyce Meyer

The moon always calmed her - something about the way its soft glow broke through, like there was still hope, even surrounded by the darkness. — Cindi Madsen

Culture is something that must grow. You cannot build a tree; you can only plant it, and care for it, and wait for it to mature ... — Norman Davies