Papermaking Quotes & Sayings

I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually. — Ira Glass

Scared people either shut down and avoid the thing they fear, or get angry at it and lash out. — Leisa Rayven

Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong. — Francis Collins

I'm 84 years old. Don't let the altar-boy face fool you. — Johnny Kelly

Success isn't just work, but finding the right balance between life and work. — Antonius Houston

Grief isn't a luxury; it's an appropriate response to loss. You don't just will it away. If you allow it to run its course, it will fade with time, but if you ignore it or pretend it doesn't exist, it only gets worse. — Richard Paul Evans

The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple. — Evan Esar

And Clare, always Clare. Clare in the morning all sleepy and crumple-faced. Clare with her arms plunging into the papermaking vat, pulling up the mold and shaking it so, and so, to meld the fibers. Clare reading with her hair hanging over the back of the chair, massaging balm into her cracked red hands before bed. Clare's low voice is in my ear often.
I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going, and she cannot follow. — Audrey Niffenegger

Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don't have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead. — Ajahn Chah