Nordenberg Hall Quotes & Sayings

I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way. — Della Reese

She's wearing this backpack with yarn coming out of it, so she can knit while she's standing. — Maria Semple

There're times when strangers are like family, and family are like strangers — Hlovate

But I will write in spite of everything, absolutely; it is my struggle for self-preservation. — Franz Kafka

Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him upon his private bench from which he had never stirred." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything was great until it sucked. — Patrick Wensink

Intent matters. Integrity matters. Courage matters. If you have the three, nothing else matters — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Horrible types, specialists in the One, builders of middle-class castles, and upper-class Usher houses, writers of boring Commencement speeches, creepy otherworldly types, worse than Pope Paul, academics who resembled gray jars, and who would ruin a whole state like Tennessee if put into it; people totally unable to merge into the place where they live
they could live in a valley for years and never become the valley — Robert Bly

Don't ever be afraid to step out and do something different. — Kim Alexis

What has been said does not simply belong to us. — Josef Albers

My stories were translated and had many reviews before I had an interview with any international or Arab newspaper. If the stories hadn't succeeded, you wouldn't have asked me my position on Arab festivals and I wouldn't have been interested in the festivals anyway, because I would be in seclusion, writing. — Hassan Blasim