Liening Quotes & Sayings

America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights. — Jonathan Haidt

No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about. — Michael Connelly

Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

We lived on 82nd Street and the Metropolitan Museum was my short cut to Central Park. I wrote:
"I go into the museum
and look at all the pictures on the walls.
Instead of feeling my own insignificance
I want to go straight home and paint."
A great painting, or symphony, or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of creation behind the universe. This surge of creativity has nothing to do with competition, or degree of talent. When I hear a superb pianist, I can't wait to get to my own piano, and I play about as well now as I did when I was ten. A great novel, rather than discouraging me, simply makes me want to write. This response on the part of any artist is the need to make incarnate the new awareness we have been granted through the genius of someone else. — Madeleine L'Engle

The time is coming when each of us will have to give an account of our stewardship — Sunday Adelaja

There are many fair places in heaven, and over everything there a godlike watch is kept. A hall stands there, fair, under the ash by the well, and out of that hall come three maids.... [T]hese maids determine the period of men's lives: we call them Norns; but there are many norns: those who come to each child that is born, to appoint his life." Prose Edda, Gylfaginning, Snorri Sturlson, translated by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur — Kyle Jones

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it. — John R.W. Stott

I spend a lot of my time just developing material; or the company does. That material can come from a book, can come from a newspaper, can come from a discussion and sometimes it can come from a script that got passed over and is floating around. — Ridley Scott

You know that you are a writer if you are imaginative. You know that you are a writer if you are curious. You know that you are a writer if you are interested in the things and people of the world. You know that you are a writer if you hold a minie ball in your hand and wonder about its story. You know that you are a writer if you like the sound of rain on the roof. And if you want to tell someone else about your heart and how waiting for the thunder sometimes makes you feel, if you work to find the words to do that, then you are a writer.
Maureen O'Toople in the short story Your Question for Author Here — Jon Scieszka

It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is. — Sandra Bullock

It's the end of the world every day, for someone. — Margaret Atwood

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation. — George Bernard Shaw

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts. — Lord Chesterfield