Pettiford Ceramics Quotes & Sayings

According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child. Not just try, but eat. I was even inclined to dig into stuff about which she expressed open disgust - lobster and other shellfish, and cheap Chinese food with pepper so hot it made your gums feel like a medieval dentist had been at them. — Alice Dreger

It is the eye which makes the horizon. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Too often the man who complains the loudest has nothing of substance to say. Too often the man who complains the most provides no answers of solution. — Jayce O'Neal

Nobody gets muscles by watching ME lift weights. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world. — Jeanette Winterson

The doorbell rang. "Shh-shh. The ogres are here," Val said. "They're not ogres," Ivy corrected him with a small laugh. She started for the door but Val stepped in front of it with his arms spread wide. "You can't go out there yet. Let's see if Dennis and Kathy survive their encounter first." "Val - — Elaine Levine

It was silent, but a silent that was so loud I wanted to cover my ears. — Nicole Williams

Do you have any advice for your readers?
Lead the life that's yours instead of faking someone else's. — Sandy Nathan

While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough. — Jesse Jackson

Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something. — Maggie Stiefvater

Desolation, desolation, I owe so much to desolation. — Jack Kerouac

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. — Ernest Hemingway,

The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere. — Rachel Cusk

We're dancing from here, from inside, not from outside. You could look at anybody throwing their leg and kick their leg up and a million pirouettes and do all kinds of tricks and stuff like that. But that's not what dance is really about. — Judith Jamison

Sleep heavily and know that I am here with you now. The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles in as the gentle present. This now, this us? We can cope with that. We can do this together. You and I, drowsily, but comfortably. — Cecil Baldwin