Shelman Sandlin Quotes & Sayings

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care. — Randy Pausch

People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed. — E. M. Forster

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me. — Jeanette Winterson

White hedonism cut on blue
intelligence and laced
with silver anxiety. Bravo. — R.F. Langley

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics. — Edward Hopper

The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth. — Al Gore

What is evil?' asked the Fiend — Joseph Delaney

Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy. — Pliny The Elder

She did not want to be Bilong's mother, or her grandmother. She had done with these roles, with being a good child, a good wife, a good mother. She had put seventy-odd years into it; she had worked hard at it; now she wanted to be that Ofelia who painted and carved and sang in an old cracked voice with strange creatures and their stranger music. The — Elizabeth Moon

She acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience. — Anais Nin

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it. — Rodney Dangerfield

I wanted to protect you, but I'm starting to think that the best thing you can do for people is teach them how to protect themselves. Every girl needs to be at least a little dangerous. — Kai Cheng Thom

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing. — Howard Gordon

On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo. — Leopold Stokowski