Saccomanno Scholarship Quotes & Sayings

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting. — Jacqueline Bisset

The world is a cruel mother, a matron of darkness, selfishness, greed, and misery. For most, their time suckling at her breast is naught but a scramble through stinging, tearing briars before a naked, shameful collapse as the flesh gives out. And yet in the bright eyes of every newborn, there lies a spark, a potential for goodness, the possibility of a life worth living. That spark deserves its chance. And though most of them will turn out to be as worthless as the parents who sired them, while the cruelty of the earth will tell them to release their innocence and join in the drawing of daggers, every now and then one manages to clutch to its beauty and refuses to release it into the dark. — Ed McDonald

And what do we get for our faith? For the centuries we've given this church or that one our gifts of blood and treasure? The assurance that heaven is waiting for us at the end of it all, and when we get there, the punchline will be explained and we'll say, 'Oh yeah! Now I get it.' That's the big payoff. It's dinned into our ears from our earliest days: heaven, heaven, heaven! We will see our lost children, our dear mothers will take us in their arms! That's the carrot. — Stephen King

Fiction is a tower of glass built from a million tiny truths, grains of sand fused together to make a single, gleaming lie. — Joanne Harris

Good ideas don't stand a chance against good bureaucracy. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, the same as I've believed all my life. — Mark Neumann

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. — Samuel Johnson

I have no ideals. I have no will that the world should be any better or worse or anything ... Because I know that for every genius there exists a robbing murderer. There is nothing to do about that. The world is such that if you want to find the intensity within the genuine, you will at the same time find the criminals around the nearest corner. And if you eliminate that genetic quality in the human being, then everyone will become very inactive and very boring, but on the other hand we get rid of criminality. — Odd Nerdrum

There's little enough joy, and far too much pain, in a world like this not to appreciate the beauty that comes your way. He — Kate Elliott

The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end. — Jesse Kellerman