Rigpa Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things. — Orson Welles

You glow, Lark." His hand climbed back up again and swept over my unbound hair. I swallowed, suddenly close to tears. Then why does no one see me? "I see you," he said. — Amy Harmon

Whatever our personal burden or cross to bear might be, we are here. We live! We Learn! The Grand Adventure is under way for us. Terrible as our trials might be, we are blessed and not abandoned by God. — Elaine A. Cannon

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant". — Davis Bunn

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd. — Bitsie Tulloch

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination? — Ian McEwan

It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't. — Yogi Berra

Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content. — Hermann Hesse

To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning. It means to uncover lies, confusions, and overgeneralizations, to detect abuses of logic and common sense. It also means to weigh ideas, to compare and contrast assertions, to connect one generalization to another. To accomplish this, one must achieve a certain distance from the words themselves, which is, in fact, encouraged by the isolated and impersonal text. That is why a good reader does not cheer an apt sentence or pause to applaud even an inspired paragraph. Analytic thought is too busy for that, and too detached. — Neil Postman

It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like. — Laura Carmichael

I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country ... — Susan Cain

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas. — Jose Saramago

Teachers of design should help a student to find their own voice. In other words, not be a templated version of the teacher, but rather to help them [the students] unfold what they already know and can bring to the table. — April Greiman

Yes: the race is long-to finish first, first you must finish. ~p206 — Garth Stein

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read. — Matt Haig