Panicles Quotes & Sayings

The point is this. The arts are not the pretty but irrelevant bits around the border of reality. They are the highways into the center of a reality which cannot be glimpsed, let alone grasped, any other way. The present world is good, but broken and in any case incomplete; art of all kinds enables us to understand that paradox in its many dimensions. But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold-and yet if you'd never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn't believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed. Perhaps art can show something of that, can glimpse the future possibilities pregnant within the present time. — N. T. Wright

Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where you have to get some skill before you can even produce a sound. It's misleading because it's hard to make stories. It seems like it should be easy to do but it's not. The more you write, the better you're going to get. Write and write and write. Try not to be hard on yourself. — Gail Carson Levine

If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to. — Brian Setzer

It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets. — Harry Houdini

If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven. — John Vianney

If you are prepared," he told his players, "you will be confident, and will do the job. — Tim Sanders

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor. — Alec Guinness

Sometimes the best way to get other people to give up their egos is for you to give up yours first. — Jane Ripley

I never want to regret. 'Regret' is the ugliest word. — Peter Hedges