Nini Smalls Quotes & Sayings

Willed introversion, in fact, is one of the classic implements of creative genius and can be employed as a deliberate device. — Joseph Campbell

Things are either devolving toward, or evolving from, nothingness. As dusk approaches in the hinterlands, a traveler ponders shelter for the night. He notices tall rushes growing everywhere, so he bundles an armful together as they stand in the field, and knots them at the top. Presto, a living grass hut. The next morning, before embarking on another day's journey, he unknots the rushes and presto, the hut de-constructs, disappears, and becomes a virtually indistinguishable part of the larger field of rushes once again. The original wilderness seems to be restored, but minute traces of the shelter remain. A slight twist or bend in a reed here and there. There is also the memory of the hut in the mind of the traveler - and in the mind of the reader reading this description. Wabi-sabi, in its purest, most idealized form, is precisely about these delicate traces, this faint evidence, at the borders of nothingness. — Leonard Koren

I guess my husband is a muse as well. — Tori Amos

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods. — Frances Perkins

Why call yourself a King when you don't have the Freedom to do anything!-RVM — R.v.m.

When did you feel most fulfilled? When did you impress yourself, or otherwise feel most proud of yourself? — David Maister

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years. — Wallace Shawn

Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners. — Rene Crevel

Regret is the most tiresome of companions. — Richard Paul Evans

When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she is pressed into living a most unnatural life- a life that is self-blinding.. without innovation. The world-wide issue for women is that under such conditions they are not only silenced, they are put to sleep. Their concerns, their viewpoints, their own truths are vaporized. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I think an editing style is something that is ascribed to the work after-the-fact. I don't think you go in with a particular intention, but I think if there is an integrity to the work and the material you are working with, the work comes from the nature of that material. — Jay Cassidy

The truth is told in anger, not regret, love. — Rachel E. Carter

As writer Isak Dinesen put it, All sorrows can be borne if we put them in a story or tell a story about them. — Sue Monk Kidd