Pianny Quotes & Sayings

I only get writer's block about once a day. — Sue Grafton

As for being young," I said, kneeling down, "yeah, I'm aware. Doesn't mean I haven't figured out a few things. — Brandon Sanderson

The mere possession of a vision is not the same as living it, nor can we encourage others with it if we do not, ourselves, understand and follow its truths. The pattern of the Great Spirit is over us all, but if we follow our own spirits from within, our pattern becomes clearer. For centuries, others have sought their visions. They prepare themselves, so that if the Creator desires them to know their life's purpose, then a vision would be revealed. To be blessed with visions is not enough ... we must live them! — Tim McCoy

If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all. — William Morris

Let's hear the sound of the baby pianny. — Louisa May Alcott

The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation ... It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental. — May Sarton

Why do we consider that just because people have more money, they do not deserve it? It is totally wrong. They deserve everything they have earned. — Anthea Turner

I arched an eyebrow at her.
She made an awful sound. God, you're already Mrs. Sullivan. — Chloe Neill

And feel by turns the bitter change
Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce. — John Milton

The cache of Christianity is Christ. Not money in the bank or a car in the garage or a healthy body or a better self-image. Secondary and tertiary fruits perhaps. But the Fort Knox of faith is Christ. Fellowship with him. Walking with him. Pondering him. Exploring him. The heart-stopping realization that in him you are part of something ancient, endless, unstoppable, and unfathomable. And that he, who can dig the Grand Canyon with his pinkie, thinks you're worth his death on Roman timber. Christ is the reward of Christianity. Why else would Paul make him his supreme desire? "I want to know Christ" (Phil. 3:10 NCV). — Max Lucado

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don't really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion. — Penn Jillette

Science may be weird and incomprehensible
more weird and less comprehensible than any theology
but science works. It gets results. It can fly you to Saturn, slingshotting you around Venus and Jupiter on the way. We may not understand quantum theory (heaven knows, I don't), but a theory that predicts the real world to ten decimal places cannot in any straightforward sense be wrong. — Richard Dawkins

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. — Quentin Crisp

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. — Raymond Aron

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all. — Peter F. Drucker

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day. — Max Aitken