Musings Suzanne Steele Quotes & Sayings

Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how to make sentences forever and you will know too when what you are writing doesn't make the grade because it has degenerated into a mere pile of discrete items. — Stanley Fish

I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find any voice teacher that could teach me to sing like Lead Belly I'd spend every cent to study under him." But every time you'd go to a voice teacher, he'd teach you to warble, as if you'd want to be an opera singer, and that's not what I'm interested in. — Pete Seeger

Readers are smart and they know how to read more than just a book; they know how to read their authors. — Suzanne Steele

The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequealled nobility. — Karen Blixen

The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing. — Seth MacFarlane

Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation. — Francis Collins

A martial arts practice hall, a dojo, is a place you go to practice being the best you can be. But the true combat in a dojo is not between one person and another as most people believe it to be. The true combat in a martial arts practice hall is between the people within ourselves. — Michael Gerber

The secret of poetry is cruelty. — Jon Anderson

Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go! — Zedd

But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness. — Ben Carson

The phaenomena afforded by trades, are a part of the history of nature, and therefore may both challenge the naturalist's curiosity and add to his knowledge, Nor will it suffice to justify learned men in the neglect and contempt of this part of natural history, that the men, from whom it must be learned, are illiterate mechanicks ... is indeed childish, and too unworthy of a philosopher, to be worthy of an honest answer. — Robert Boyle

Your unavowed atrocities kill you from the inside out. What is the compulsion to tell the truth if not a moral compulsion? Jacqueline Delon had asked. She was wrong. It's a survival necessity. You can't live if you can't accept what you are, and you can't accept what you are if you can't say what you do. The power of naming, as old as Adam. — Glen Duncan

Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite. — Joseph Addison

A book is the one place you're permitted to feel emotion; anywhere else you're expected to be professional.
And you ask me why I like to read... — Suzanne Steele

A happy reader is a sane reader
an unhappy one
well...not so much. — Suzanne Steele

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended. — Albert Camus

When I write...
I open a vein and bleed for the masses
It's all I know... — Suzanne Steele