Lobregat Quotes & Sayings

If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do. — Chloe Grace Moretz

Like every great writer before or since, Jonson understood that the best poets 'are both made and born'. That all great writing has to be hammered out and all great poets stand or fall by that 'second heat', their laboured revision. — James Shapiro

If, all our thoughts were edited, good words would come forth, and be received by a compassionate ear. — Colleen Baxter Sullivan

It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home. — David Bowie

Play invites participation. — Brian Goodwin

You must be Arha, or you must be Tenar. You cannot be both. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice. — Tony Honore

To pastors and teachers
Compose catechisms particularly to teach prayer, not by reasoning nor by method, for the simple are incapable thereof; but to teach the prayer of the heart, not of the understanding; the prayer of God's Spirit, not of man's invention.
Alas! By wanting them to pray in elaborate forms ... you create their chief obstacles. The children have been led astray from the best of fathers, by your endeavouring to teach them too refined, too polished a language ...
A father is much better pleased with an address which love and respect in the child throws into disorder, because he knows it proceeds from the heart, than by a formal and barren harangue, though ever so elaborate in the composition. The simple and undisguised emotions of filial love are infinitely more expressive than all language and all reasoning. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral. — Charles Darwin

A curious monomaniac,' said Eugene. 'The man seems to believe that everybody was acquainted with his mother! — Charles Dickens