Love Their Eyes Were Watching God Quotes & Sayings

I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page. — Steve Toltz

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate. — Rem Koolhaas

The whole world is covered in buttons, and not one of them is mine! — Arnold Lobel

I canna think why the good Lord should waste hair like that on a man. — Diana Gabaldon

Regardless of subject matter, this is the only thing worth teaching: how to uncover that original center and how to live there once it is restored. We call the filming over a deadening of heart, and the process of return, whether brought about through suffering or love, is how we unlearn our way back to God. Close your eyes and breathe your way beneath your troubles, the way a diver slips to that depth of stillness that is always waiting beneath the churning of the waves. Now, consider two things you love doing, such as running, drawing, singing, bird-watching, gardening, or reading. Meditate on what it is in each of these that makes you feel alive. Hold what they have in common before you, and breathing slowly, feel the spot of grace these dear things mirror within you. — Mark Nepo

We must not wait for favours from Nature; our task is to wrest them from her. — Ivan Michurin

He could have spent the whole night watching her red lips form the words to the songs. Those lips-they were as bright as the red maple trees that glowed this time of year. Her blue eyes danced with each fast song, a wild swirl of crisp leaves in the autumn wind.

That was how she haunted his heart. Every season, every corner of Gott's good land, he saw Annie there. — Rosalind Lauer

Who has magnificent self-confidence
And fears nothing that exists?
The man who has attained to truth
And lives free of error. — Dalai Lama

I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films. — Paul Auster

Pukka sahib or rank outsider
gentleman or bounder
and it's accent, accent, all the way. — Christina Stead

We've known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There's been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously. — Milan Kundera

A lot of times the best trailers are for complete dogshit movies. It's a shame that people are beyond quick to judge things these days. Lots of great stuff gets lost that way. — Rob Zombie