Schopperten Quotes & Sayings

That's the role of poetry, Ciri. To say what others cannot utter. — Andrzej Sapkowski

Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them. — Tom Greer

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out. — Quincy Jones

All events and experiences are local, somewhere. And all human enhancements of events and experiences
all the arts
are regional in the sense that they derive from immediate relation to felt life.
It is this immediacy that distinguishes art. And paradoxically the more local the feeling in art, the more all people can share it; for that vivid encounter with the stuff of the world is our common ground.
Artists, knowing this mutual enrichment that extends everywhere, can act, and praise, and criticize, as insiders
the means of art is the life of all people. And that life grows and improves by being shared. Hence, it is good to welcome any region you live in or come to, or think of, for that is where life happens to be, right where you are. — William Stafford

Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded. — Sandra Steingraber

I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that in my work. — Brian Bird

I'll send Ria to you. Save you sneaking up the wall. — Nalini Singh

They must be cool but determined ... he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice. — David McCullough

You plant your own garden instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. In other words, take responsibility for your own needs and your own happiness. — Maggi Myers