S M Lockridge Quotes & Sayings

The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We loved - and were fated to sorrow. But from our striving and from our sorrow we fashioned The Oldest Story in the World. — Ross Lockridge Jr.

Criminal investigation has been loosely compared to many things, including the putting together of a jigsaw puzzle. It is seldom that simple. The pieces of such a puzzle are of a fixed shape, immutable. Men and women change shape when touched. — Frances Lockridge

The arts are obsessional, and obsession is dangerous. It's like a knife in the mind. In some cases - Dylan Thomas comes to mind, and Ross Lockridge and Hart Crane and Sylvia Plath - the knife can turn savagely upon the person wielding it. Art is a localized illness, usually benign - creative people tend to live a long time - sometimes terribly malignant. You use the knife carefully, because you know it doesn't care who it cuts. And if you are wise you sift the sludge carefully ... because some of that stuff may not be dead. — Stephen King

There will always be war, but we must always work to oppose it. — Shunryu Suzuki

To me she looked like a lily, an innocence floating in the pond! — Avijeet Das

There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature. — Oscar Wilde

He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word - such as "grok" which forever meant exactly the same thing. Short human words were like trying to lift water with a knife. — Robert A. Heinlein

I don't think that I've ever been a backup. — Joe Namath

Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago. — Nichelle Nichols

Working in a lab for twenty years has left me with two stories: the one that I have to write, and the one that I want to. Science is an institution — Hope Jahren

With strong heart, you will survive life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down. — Mitch Albom