Lutyens Bench Quotes & Sayings

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life. — Charles Dickens

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price, only value. — Bel Kaufman

True, most married men are convinced that their lives are dedicated to the family, and from a material standpoint this might be true. But it takes more than food in the fridge and two cars in the garage to keep a family going. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch. — P.D. James

That's okay. You an be selfish with me all you want. I'm yours. — Abbi Glines

The death of self of which the great writers speak is no violent act. It is merely the joining of the great rock heart of the earth in its roll. It is merely the slow cessation of the will's spirits and the intellect's chatter: it is waiting like a hollow bell with a stilled tongue. Fuge, tace, quiesce. The waiting itself is the thing. — Annie Dillard

The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't. — Mo Rocca