Quellin Quotes & Sayings

The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth. — Ella Maillart

Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world. — Frances Mayes

Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked. — Michael Winter

I feel as disappointed as if I'd just opened a parcel full of ghosts. — Mathias Malzieu

Most babies come into the world crying or gasping or snotting.
Not Tiny Cooper.
He comes into the world singing. — David Levithan

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. — Jessamyn West

Everyone nodded, nobody agreed. — Ian McEwan

To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a mercy, a fatherly expression of love. — Scott Hahn

We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online. — Joichi Ito

Art is not an object, but a way of looking at an object. — Elaine Equi

In his sophomore year Wilbanks tried out for the high school basketball team and made it. On the first day of practice his coach had him play one-on-one while the team observed. When he missed an easy shot, he became angry and stomped and whined. The coach walked over to him and said, "You pull a stunt like that again and you'll never play for my team." For the next three years he never lost control again. Years later, as he reflected back on this incident, he realized that the coach had taught him a life-changing principle that day: anger can be controlled. — Lynn G. Robbins

Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Missing someone, they say, is self-centered.
I self-center you more than ever. — Sasa Stanisic

He had never been involved with the mentally ill before, but he now felt more than ever that there should be strong international laws against them being too good-looking. — Lorrie Moore

Comparative appraisals of efficacy require not only evaluation of one;s own performances but also knowledge of how others do, cognizance of nonability determinants of their performances, and some understanding that it is others, like oneself, who provide the most informative social criterion for comparison — Albert Bandura