Number The Stars Character Quotes & Sayings

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea? — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

One catfish does not make a creek, nor one hero a nation. — William Cowper Brann

Life is a flower in the garden of humanity. It blooms for a short time and then slowly it disappears and becomes a memory on the canvas of infinite time. — Debasish Mridha

When I don't have a good time, it's usually because there's a stiffness that stifles creativity. — Garry Shandling

Keep what you have; the known evil is best. — Plautus

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me. — Jennifer Chiaverini

Never underestimate the naughtiness factor. — Eowyn Wood

Did you ever try to sleep sober? — Doug Stanhope

There's something in this particular practice that can teach us Cristians a powerful lesson, that we may see so vividly our own wretched state, that it's not this world we should cherish but the promise of the next. — Joseph Boyden

Fools and young men prate about everything being possible for a man. That, however, is a great error. Spiritually speaking, everything is possible, but in the world of the finite there is much which is not possible. — Soren Kierkegaard