Lirah Bell Quotes & Sayings

Karl Barth said it well: "We have to read the Bible in one hand ... and the newspaper in the other." Our faith should not cause us to escape this world but to engage it. — Shane Claiborne

As a younger person, I was obsessed with Ray Bradbury, and I think his stories did more to shape me as a storyteller than anybody else - even though, when I read them now, a lot of them seem overly sentimental. But that's probably the writer that I've thought about the most, even though I don't necessarily like a lot of his work. — Shaun Tan

Business is as old as life. There is no living being that does not have a business. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The artist has only to trust his eyes. — Auguste Rodin

God has sent no one to this earth purposeless. — Karen Wheaton

He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be. — Cinda Williams Chima

The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so. — Norman Potter

Isn't it fun,' she said and she smiled. I let the oars rest in the rowlocks. The water around the boat fell silent, and silently the cabin was floating up above the rocks and the smoke rose softly from the chimney, and how impossible it was to grasp that in the end something as fine as this could be ground into dust. — Per Petterson

As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us. — William Golding

Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

You cannot look at that which you do not want and not join and perpetuate that vibration. Take your attention from that which is not in harmony with who you are, and your "now vibration" will adjust to who you really are - and then you can uplift others. — Esther Hicks

A new study shows that the child population in San Francisco is dwindling and in fact San Francisco has the smallest share of children of any major city in the United States. That's odd, huh? For some reason couples in San Francisco don't seem to be reproducing as much as couples in other cities. Gee, I wonder what the problem is there? You think it might be something in the Rice-A-Roni? — Jay Leno

I was watching Discovery Channel the other day, and you know that they have come up with a new theory about how dinosaurs was wiped out? It was a midturn election ... — Jay Leno