Pipeful Quotes & Sayings

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality. — Harold Nicolson

I can't not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass. — Ben Harper

Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers. — Chris Priestley

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. — John W. Gardner

Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire. — Benjamin Franklin

And I was left alone, in that gentle afternoon, indifferent to my clothes and comfortable in my skin, unimproved and without the prospect of improvement. It seemed to me then that Lucille would busy herself forever, nudging, pushing, coaxing, as if she could supply the will I lacked, to pull myself into some seemly shape and slip across the wide frontiers into that other world, where it seemed to me then I could never wish to go. For it seemed to me that nothing I had lost, or might lose, could be found there [...] — Marilynne Robinson

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004. — Laura Ziskin

On the seventh day, Howard turned off the trail and sat by the river and smoked a pipeful of tobacco that he had packed for the hermit. As he smoked, he listened to the voices in the rapids. They murmured about a place somewhere deep in the woods where a set of bones lay on a bed of moss, above which a troop of mournful flies had kept vigil the previous autumn until the frosts came, and they, too, had succumbed. — Paul Harding