Loresco Calculator Quotes & Sayings

"The only reason some of us are not exiled or thrown into prison is simply because we do not preach as fervently and as sternly as did Paul, John, Peter R.A. Torrey and others. This modern "santa claus" religion that is sweeping country today is not the religion Jesus taught and John practiced." — Oliver B. Greene

Here's the conundrum: We want to tell our stories! But if condensation is the language of wishes - especially the most verboten and destructive ones - the more you spell the story out, the less aesthetically charged it becomes. The question is whether untransformed experience can ever be aesthetically powerful, or whether it's simply interesting. Literary language is one solution, with its habits of duality - metaphor, irony - and other techniques for saying opposing things at once. For haunting the reader with ghosts of buried meanings.
Your story may be interesting, but what if, paradoxically, it's what you can't say that makes it lasting? — Laura Kipnis

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. — Josh Billings

He was about to kiss me. I was sure of it. I had never been kissed before and had no idea what to do! - Delphine Delmar — Heidi Peltier

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it. — Graham Parker

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards. — Eudora Welty

Poor, dear old Mack, he was ninety-eight per cent perfect. His two percent failing was that he had absolutely no idea of the value or the power of arbitration. He was the veteran of a hundred battles, and I never once could say to the other fellow, 'Your dog started it. — William S. Hart

Instead of spreading antagonism or hate, try to make a positive remark about something. — Tyler Blackburn

Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore. — Bill Lee

Don't worry; skills are cheap, passion is priceless. If you're passionate about your content and you know it and do it better than anyone else, even with few formal business skills you have the potential to create a million-dollar business. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times. — William Forsyth Sharpe

Would I be an Archivist then?" I asked. "No," she said. "You'd be a trader." For a moment, I thought she said traitor, which of course I was, to the Society. — Ally Condie

When you know something is wrong for you, you have to make difficult decisions and trust your instincts. — Michael Jackson

Loss is an invitation to a journey of unparalleled growth, yet we seldom RSVP the invitation. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore. — Nadia Bolz-Weber