Scone Famous Quotes & Sayings

At the Integral stages of development, the entire universe starts to make sense, to hang together, to actually appear as a uni-verse - a "one world" - a single, unified, integrated world that unites not only different philosophies and ideas about the world, but different practices for growth and development as well. — Ken Wilber

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously. — Nicolas Roeg

We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life. — S. Jay Olshansky

It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all. — Khaled Hosseini

While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others. — Mary Parker Follett

I turn to Slim. Do I smell? I says. He throws me a startled look. Uh - Ohmigawd, I do. I smell bad. How bad? Go on, you can tell me. Well, he says, you don't smell as bad as some. But you don't smell as good as some neether. I knew it, I says. What'm I gonna do? Yer askin me fer advice? He shakes his head as he says, I'd remind you that I'm wearin a lady dress with no unders. — Moira Young

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. — Don Marquis

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it. — William Golding

He couldn't even write his name. When he was Emperor, he had to sign documents with a stencil. — K.J. Parker

Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear. — Seamus Heaney

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time. — Marilynne Robinson

For me my big dream that I would like to achieve is for each book to be better than the books that came before, to continue to improve and to become better as a writer and hopefully to have a long career . — Cassandra Clare