Leisan Quotes & Sayings

You used to write such honest books. Honest and emotionally ambitious. Maybe they weren't finding millions of readers. Maybe they weren't making you rich. But they were making the world rich — Jonathan Safran Foer

The ways of men and women are such a puzzle. And I could barely decipher my own feelings, let along anyone else's. — Megan Shepherd

Every song falls short of the glory of what a song could be. That's why the urge is there to start again and yet again. Often it's the fault of rhyme. I've discovered a hundred times that there just aren't enough rhymes to say what I wanted to say, so I said something else instead. Sometimes it was a better thing, but the thing I meant to say went unsaid. So there's an opening for another song. — Robert Hunter

Ma'am," Cline said, "I hid under dead bodies less cold than you." He glanced at Harper and — Joe Hill

I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God. — Samuel Barnett

That is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back. — Evelyn Waugh

God sees you. Not because of what you have done or not done but because you are loved. — Emily P. Freeman

I'll admit, I was disappointed to learn that dragons didn't exist. That's a hard lesson for a boy to learn. — Patrick Rothfuss

Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening — Joan Armatrading

I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew. — William Shakespeare

HAMM
Open the window.
CLOV
What for?
HAMM
I want to hear the sea.
CLOV
You wouldn't hear it.
HAMM Even if you opened the window?
CLOV
No.
HAMM
Then it's not worth opening it?
CLOV
No.
HAMM(violently)
Then open it! — Samuel Beckett

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important. — Drew Barrymore

Here is an eternal truth. Life cannot be divided into compartments in some which God is involved and in others of which he is not involved ... The fact is that God does not need to be invited into certain departments of life, and kept out of others. He is everywhere, all through life and in every activity of life. He hears not only the words that are spoken in his name; he hears all words; and there cannot be any such thing as a form of words which evades bringing God into any transaction. We will regard all promises as sacred if we remember that all promises are made in the presence of God. — William Barclay