Lbjs Quotes & Sayings

How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? — Stan Brakhage

Aye me sad hours seem long — William Shakespeare

I had the elated, otherworldly feeling I sometimes get entering the sphere of another's life, when for a moment changing my banal habits and living like that seems entirely possible, a feeling that always dissolves by the next morning, when I wake up to the familiar, unmovable shapes of my own life. — Nicole Krauss

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Psychic beings are childlike, delicate and easily destroyed. — Frederick Lenz

She had other favourite lines. Our gas oven blew up. The repairman came out and said he didn't like the look of it, which was unsurprising as the oven and the wall were black. Mrs Winterson replied, 'It's a fault to heaven, a fault against the dead, and a fault to nature.' That is a heavy load for a gas oven to bear.
She liked that phrase and it was more than once used towards me; when some well-wisher asked how I was, Mrs W looked down and sighed, 'She's a fault to heaven, a fault against the dead, and a fault to nature.'
This was even worse for me than it had been for the gas oven. I was particularly worried about the 'dead' part, and wondered which buried and unfortunate relative I had so offended. — Jeanette Winterson

It's one thing to really dream and have a vision and want all these cool things, but it's a whole other thing when you actually have wisdom and understand things. Then you can truly make the best decisions. — Ciara

We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people. — Mark Driscoll

You've been spending money again," Lily murmured as she felt Cade's arms tighten around her. "I spent a lifetime saving that money until I had someone to spend it on. I think I've found what I was looking for." Lily — Patricia Rice

Give the reader hell. Stretch the reader. — Martin Amis

A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far more intimate and powerful than speech will allow. — Alice Steinbach

Since no one said anything, I decided to make offense my best ... offense. You didn't call me up here to kill me, did you? Or to pay me back for staking you? Because the last time I saw you upright, you were ... rude. — Faith Hunter