Sillers Institute Quotes & Sayings

Pen, ink, and paper are cold vehicles for the marvellous, and a "reader" decidedly a more critical animal than a "listener. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed. — Gaston Bachelard

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. — Honore De Balzac

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer. — Criss Jami

When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at those moments we are giving up our citizenship. — Naomi Wolf

Don't ever underestimate the power of mentoring someone, or helping some young actor, doing a favor for them, or introducing- everyone needs somebody to help them along when they're first starting out. — Allison Janney

I wasn't strong enough to have an eating disorder. I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that's not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.' — Meghan Trainor

I think of you and forget to breathe... — Gloria Smith

How prepared are we for our exist out of the world? — Lailah Gifty Akita

I played baseball as a left-handed first baseman, though never as well as I did quarterbacking. — Bob Sheppard

I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it. — John Wesley

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress. — G.K. Chesterton

The surfing - the waves in Indonesia are amazing. — Rob Machado

They more than do their work, they take pride in it. Like Cinna. — Suzanne Collins

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
(Jesus, in Mark 11:24) — Anonymous