Minchew Sisters Quotes & Sayings

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. — Francis Bacon

Would you like me to write Mrs. Ames about inviting you to Yaddo? Get Miss Moore to write too. You can't invite yourself, though, of course, almost all the invitations are planned. It would be marvelous to have you there. I know the solitude that gets too much. It doesn't drug me, but I get fantastic and uncivilized.
At last my divorce [from Jean Stafford] is over. It's funny at my age to have one's life so much in and on one's hands. All the rawness of learning, what I used to think should be done with by twenty-five. Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction, so I'm thankful, and call it good, as Eliot would say. — Robert Lowell

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. — Franz Kafka

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain. — John Mayer

For a quick, healthy meal that's also fun for kids, I serve fish tacos: soft tortillas, lettuce, tomatoes, black beans and brown rice. — Kim Raver

Sometimes if you're a director, you want to believe that you're great and capable at all aspects - the technical side, the lights, everything - but I'm not. — Steven Knight

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. — Mahatma Gandhi

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us. — Oscar Wilde

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged. — John Taylor Gatto

I'm not a big slasher film fan. — David Naughton

We mean are so weak. Our bodies betray even the noblest of us. - Ser Arys — George R R Martin

The Devil may care, but no one else does. — Priscilla Vogelbacher