Loadstar Quotes & Sayings

You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer. — Robin Sacredfire

By wit we search divine aspect above,
By wit we learn what secrets science yields,
By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd,
By wit we govern all our actions;
Wit is the loadstar of each human thought,
Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought. — Robert Greene

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave. — Spalding Gray

I'd love to be able to multiply because then I could be in lots of different places at once. — Danielle Panabaker

Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas. — Reginald Hudlin

The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in detail, hammering at it, putting it near flame, pouring different acids on it, and then finally you figure out what it is, or you just give up and mount it on a ring and have an awkward chunky piece of jewelry that seems weirdly dominating but that you for some reason like. I could be wrong about field geology here. — Rivka Galchen

How do we let people pay for music? — Amanda Palmer

The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him. — Oswald Chambers

We have no control over what haunts us. We're helpless to it. — Jill Bialosky

Is it possible to preserve the element of Unknown Places in our national life? Is it practicable to do so, without undue loss in economic values? I say 'yes' to both questions. But we must act vigorously and quickly, before the remaining bits of wilderness have disappeared. — Aldo Leopold