Nordeen Gilbertson Quotes & Sayings

I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers. — Paul Theroux

Reinforced to me again and again was how I was a 'brave girl' for not crying, a 'good girl' for not complaining, and soon I began defining myself this way, equating strength with silence. — Lucy Grealy

Most dads had hobbies that they passed down to their sons; hunting, fishing, auto repair. Dad's hobby was nuclear war, which meant his sons knew everything about it. — S.A. Bodeen

I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me. — Evelyn Waugh

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity. — John Calvin

I could be a yoga instructor. I'm not certified, but I could do it. Once I did a class where the instructor didn't show up, and I just went to the front and did it, and everyone followed. So I've done it before, and I love it. — Nina Dobrev

You can't, Brooke, you can't leave. You're mine — Katy Evans

What God has made, let not Fey eviscerate, Aodhan noted. — Maggie Stiefvater

For me to call myself a musician, it's necessary to play live, and it rewards so much - not just in the pay cheque sense but what it does for my playing. I feel it through a tour - I feel it at the end of a tour - all that I've gathered, and especially now that I am improvising so much. — Neil Peart

Afflictive passion and the veil upon cognition - The cure for their obscurity is emptiness. How then shall they not meditate on this Who wish for swift attainment of omniscience? — Santideva

Everyone you meet comes with baggage, find someone who cares enough to help you unpack. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. — Lamar S. Smith