Petskuv Quotes & Sayings

Some have patience. I do not. — Karina Halle

Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse. — Matt Mullenweg

What is God looking for in the world? Assistants? No.
The gospel is not a help-wanted ad. It is a help-available ad. God is not looking for people to work for Him but people who let Him work mightily in and through them. — John Piper

Twelve years old was awfully early to meet up with what inevitability does to possibility. — Ivan Doig

What I really love about them ... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history ... I find myself wondering about their lives. I can never look at a garment ... without thinking about the woman who owned it. How old was she? Did she work? Was she married? Was she happy? ... I look at these exquisite shoes, and I imagine the woman who owned them rising out of them or kissing someone ... I look at a little hat like this, I lift up the veil, and I try to imagine the face beneath it ... When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past. — Isabel Wolff

You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind those colours there hides the final cataclysm. — Mark Rothko

With quietism like yours one could fill a hundred years with happiness. Whether one showed you an execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We're all made of the same kind of stuff, and there's none of us made of stuff that's flawless. — Susan Glaspell

The truth is often of no consequence. — Ross Turner

Fantasy encompasses a wide, wide spectrum of writing. We have beast fables, we have gothics, we have tales of vampires and werewolves, and we have sword and sorcery; we have epics from Homer, and there is just so much out there that we put under the umbrella of 'fantasy.' — Robin Hobb

Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith I had when I was I was young ... Have that faith, each one of you, in yourself - that eternal power is lodged in every soul - and you will revive the whole of India. — Swami Vivekananda

But that's what nonfiction is, people. Shitty feelings and encounters with death. — Mark Leyner

Jessica DuLong's elegantly written "My River Chronicles" brings the past of the Hudson River into the vivid present, and carries forward the craft of literary non-fiction with grace and energy. — Gay Talese