Oberholtzer Sorghum Quotes & Sayings

Why is it that, in creative writing courses today, the very first thing we teach students is write what you know? Perhaps that's not the right way to start at all. Imaginative literature is not necessarily about writing who we are or what we know or what our identity is about. We should teach young people and ourselves to expand our hearts and write what we can feel. We should get out of our cultural ghetto and go visit the next one and the next. — Elif Shafak

We understand not one another: I am too courtly, and thou art too cunning. At — William Shakespeare

It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Have you ever loved someone so much, you felt like your heart was going to just beat right out of your chest? — Crissi Langwell

Birds have wings to fly in the sky; you have an imagination to fly everywhere. — Debasish Mridha

Here march the eaters of earth,
the swallowers of rain. — J. Aleksandr Wootton

The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box. — Drew Goddard

When you SEEK HAPPINESS for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for OTHERS, you will find it yourself. — Wayne Dyer

If we were to study these fragments by Baudelaire according to the normal methods of psychology, we might conclude that when the poet left behind him the settings of the world, to experience the single "setting" of immensity, he could only have knowledge of an "abstraction come true." Intimate space elaborated in this way by a poet, would be merely the pendant of the outside space of geometricians, who seek infinite space with no other sign than infinity itself. — Gaston Bachelard

In America the imagination is generally looked on as something that might be useful when the TV is out of order. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Before now, I used to be a victim of my environment. I saw people me blame the nation and everything else that is wrong in the country on one person or the other and I simply joined them. — Sunday Adelaja

Some far day when she had become a better person and could feel something besides stinging anger that her beautiful, gentle sister had not protected herself more carefully against a world of threat. — Charles Frazier