Noah Smithwick Quotes & Sayings

Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves. — Timothy Keller

I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast. — Nicholas Hoult

I bought a year's production of flax from a single field owned by a Dutch producer. That's 10,000 kilograms of flax, enough to enable industrial level production. Now, I'm weaving it into tablecloths, tea towels, and other items at the Textile Museum in Tilburg. I'm producing hundreds of grown-up products! — Christien Meindertsma

I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place. — Jamaica Kincaid

At one point, trying to explain her unhappiness, Sanna was to say to Miss Love, "I read some psychology books in college. Everything that's supposed to warp a child happened to me." Miss Love, who had been raped as an adolescent, replies, "Everything that could warp a child happened to me, too. But understanding that doesn't help. It's interesting but it doesn't help. I figure that what you do with your life now is all that counts. I try not to look back. — Olive Ann Burns

....hurts like love, I guess. There's always room for more. — Heather R. Blair

Effective leaders don't gather things just for themselves; they do it in order to give to others. — John C. Maxwell

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood

She watched you wrestle Toby Jameson, who probably weighs two hundred pounds, without even working up a sweat. And she said to herself, wow, that's a good wrestler, he must be an angel. — Cynthia Hand

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instruction in the prevalent forms of mendacity. — Bertrand Russell

Funny way to get to a wizards' school, the train. Magic carpets all got punctures, have they? — J.K. Rowling

Evil thenceforth became my good. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

What's true about you is what God says about you. Not what your mirror says. Not what your past says. — Mark Hall

Sex was where laurel knew she knew him, and talking was the way she called him to her. — Joshilyn Jackson