Numicius Quotes & Sayings

If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals — C.S. Lewis

The major problem with the invitation now is precisely overfamiliarity. Familiarity breeds unfamiliarity - unsuspected unfamiliarity, and then contempt. People think they have heard the invitation. They think they have accepted it - or rejected it. But they have not. The difficulty today is to hear it at all. Genius, it is said, is the ability to scrutinize the obvious. Written everywhere, we may think, how could the invitation be subtle, or deep? It looks like the other graffiti and even shows up in the same places. But that is part of the divine conspiracy. — Dallas Willard

It was as if her life was a huge kaleidoscope, and the kaleidoscope had been turned and now everything was changed. The same stones shaken, no longer made the same design. — Betsy Byars

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way. — Horace

I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted. — Adam Clayton

My love for this beautifully broken, yet slowly healing boy, made me strong. — A Meredith Walters