Liedertafel Club Quotes & Sayings

There is only one smartest dog in the world, and every boy has it. — Louis Sabin

I want to rasp into sober cryptology and say something dynamic, but tonight is my laundry night. — Sherman Alexie

Simplicity itself. Skin, debone, demarrow, scarify, melt, render down and destroy. Every adjective that counted, every verb that moved, every metaphor that weighed more than a mosquito
out! Every simile that would have made sub-moron's mouth twitch
gone! Any aside that explained the two-bit philosophy of a first-rate writer
lost!
Every story slenderized, starved, bluepenciled, leeched and bled white, resembled every other story. Twain read like Poe read Shakespeare read like Dostoevsky read like
in the finale
Edgar Guest. Every word of more than three syllables had been razored. Every image that demanded so much as one instant's attention
shot dead. — Ray Bradbury

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings. — Wilhelm Raabe

If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems. — Martin Seligman

Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of. — Tedd Tripp

In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now. — Adam Lindsay Gordon