Perline Maps Quotes & Sayings

Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names. — Sharon Bolton

Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at all. — Marilynne Robinson

A place is yours when you know where all the roads go. — Stephen King

Daemonic compulsiveness can kill as easily as it can save.
The true novelist must be at once driven and indifferent. Van
Gogh never sold a painting in his life. Poe came close with
poetry and fiction, selling very little. Drivenness only helps if
it forces the writer not to suicide but to the making of splendid
works of art, allowing him indifference to whether or not the
novel sells, whether or not it's appreciated. Drivenness is trouble
for both the novelist and his friends; but no novelist, I
think, can succeed without it. Along with the peasant in the
novelist, there must be a man with a whip. — John Gardner

Not to worry, beloved," he murmured against her lips as he drew her down to the ground. "For now at least, the sky is ours."

~Michael — Rosalie Lario

We know that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, which means a number called the cosmological constant must be positive. — Lee Smolin

First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge. — Matsuo Basho

Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought. — Benjamin Franklin

Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support. — Laura Wasser

In the late '70s I was asked to sing for the first time in Germany. I'll never forget it. It was at a festival in Bremen. The German audience went berserk and the reviews were a phenomenon. For some reason the German audience understood how technically challenging this music was; it wasn't just someone yelling their head off. — Meredith Monk