Roberdeau Wheat Quotes & Sayings

Praise be to God, Who has so disposed matters that pleasant literary anecdotes may serve as an instrument for the polishing of wits and the cleansing of rust from our hearts. — Ahmad Al-Tifashi

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf

all this immorality and opportunism, this was what characterised them, not altruism, as the stories they had spun would have you believe. But then, this is a world whose running fuel is anecdotes and stories, he reminds himself. — Neel Mukherjee

We either allow our past to keep interfering with our optimal expression of love and happiness, or we can move beyond our past with renewed passion for life — Deepak Chopra

The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question. — David Mamet

At times like this you desperately need Art. You seek to reconnect with your spiritual illusions, and you wish fervently that something might rescue you from your biological destiny, so that all poetry and grandeur will not be cast out from the world — Muriel Barbery

I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the things to keep it smooth going! — J. B. Smoove

Ian turned around, revealing a tear in his pants that exposed boxers with pink dollar signs on a white background, then quickly spun back around. "Uh, never mind. — Peter Lerangis

The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them. — Jose Raul Capablanca

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us. — Orison Swett Marden

Nothing shocks me anymore ... except pure intentions. — Donna Lynn Hope

Drawing things makes them seem more real and makes me feel more alive. It also makes me pin down and remember things - landscapes, season, weather, occasions, incidents, people - that would otherwise have melted from my memory. — David Gentleman

Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way. — Dale Carnegie

Most adults assume that the feelings of adolescence don't count, somehow, and that those searing passions of rage and hate and embarrassment and horror and hopeless, abject love are something your grow out of, something hormonal, a practice run for the Real Thing. It wasn't. At 13 *everything* counts; there are sharp edges on everything, and all of them cut. — Joanne Harris