Richard Paul Evens Quotes & Sayings

What to copy is a little bit trickier. Don't just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. — Austin Kleon

Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them. — David Bayles

Instead I just stand there, tears running down my cheeks in nameless emotion that tastes of joy and of grief. Joy for the being of the shimmering world and grief for what we have lost. The grasses remember the nights they were consumed by fire, lighting the way back with a conflagration of love between species. Who today even knows what that means? I drop to my knees in the grass and I can hear the sadness, as if the land itself was crying for its people: Come home. Come home.
There are often other walkers here. I suppose that's what it means when they put down the camera and stand on the headland, straining to hear above the wind with that wistful look, the gaze out to sea. They look like they're trying to remember what it would be like to love the world. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams. — Jack Welch

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent. — Alan Rickman

It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it. — Jackie Speier

A Gem Is Always A Gem. It'll Shine Bright Like Always Even If You Put It In Charcoal. You Just Need To Open Your Eyes & Heart To Find Them In Human ... — Muhammad Imran Hasan

Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist. — Nora Ephron

The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty. — W. Somerset Maugham

See, I remember love. That's what people don't understand. — Melina Marchetta

If every human somehow simply disappeared from the face of the Earth, how long would it be before the last artificial light source would go out? — Randall Munroe

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs. — Sheldon Vanauken

He's like an elephant with anger issues. — Richard Paul Evans

He lifted a hand to her face, running a fingertip across her cheekbone and down to her mouth. It lingered for a moment before he dropped his hand to his side. I'll be here. — Amanda Gray