Loessbergs Quotes & Sayings

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. — Mark Twain

I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed. — Frank Bruno

It is impossible to overstate the need for prayer in the fabric of family life. — James Dobson

I think the rules where different there. It was all about science, but the science was magical. It didn't care about whether something could be done. It was about whether it should be done, and the answer was always, always yes. — Seanan McGuire

These Taoists' ideas have greatly influenced all our theories of action, even to those of fencing and wrestling. Jiu-jitsu, the Japanese art of self-defence, owes its name to a passage in the Tao-teking. In jiu-jitsu one seeks to draw out and exhaust the enemy's strength by non-resistance, vacuum, while conserving one's own strength for victory in the final struggle.
In art the importance of the same principle is illustrated by the value of suggestion. In leaving something unsaid the beholder is given a chance to complete the idea and thus a great masterpiece irresistibly rivets your attention until you seem to become actually a part of it. A vacuum is there for you to enter and fill up the full measure of your aesthetic emotion. — Okakura Kakuzo

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts. — Maya Lin

Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can make is to begin with other people as though the answers mattered. — William Greider

What about my patterns of denial, you ask? Well, you will soon read that once I found myself in repose, in Bordirtoun, for an extended period, certain truths about my character began to assert themselves. Truths I had long ignored, and soon, I would find myself deeper, embedded. You will find that I am similarly skilled at this Pong-ian art of denial. After all, I was the one who came halfway around the world, assuming that my father was telling the truth, knowing full well that he was a world-class liar and cheat. — Leland Cheuk

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is. — Dean Koontz

70 percent of long-term gym memberships are mostly unused, but a dog needs walking every day. — Gretchen Rubin