Skip Whitcomb Quotes & Sayings

I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes — Oscar Pistorius

You think you are reading proof, whereas you are merely reading your own mind; your statement of the thing is full of holes & vacancies but you don't know it, because you are filling them from your mind as you go along. Sometimes
but not often enough
the printer's proof-reader saves you
& offends you
with this cold sign in the margin: (?) & you search the passage & find that the insulter is right
it doesn't say what you thought it did: the gas-fixtures are there, but you didn't light the jets — Mark Twain

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo. — Anthony Hopkins

She's really gone, then...Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly... — Suzanne Collins

Nhb stared at the blade reverently. Here was a token of past victories and the valor of long dead people. "With this I can fulfill my duty to my people and defeat the Shadow," Nhb thought. — Rachel Wetsriru

Life demands confrontation. — Sunday Adelaja

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. — Mother Teresa

Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists. — May Sarton

Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events or violate the free will of human beings. — Gary Kinnaman

You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well, said Morgan, I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness. — Mary Doria Russell

Shyness takes so many different forms. Some people are shy and soft. Some, shy and hard. Or in Josh's case, shy, and wrapped in military-grade armor. "Josh, — Sally Thorne

Looking out the window of a large women's monastery after Divine Liturgy, my friend saw a few nuns walking toward the woods with satchels on their backs. Inquiring who they were, she was told they were ascetics who lived in the wilderness and had come to the monastery to attend Liturgy and to receive some food. Although we are much weaker in our times and far less ascetical than the early desert fathers and mothers, let it never be said that extreme Christian asceticism is extinct. Who knows how many St. Mary of Egypts are hidden in the wilderness? — Constantina R. Palmer

Forget our fate... — Colapesce

The things we see every day are the things we never see at all. — G.K. Chesterton

So for some reason everybody makes this huge deal about pandas. I don't know why. They never actually do anything except eat and poop. But they're really famous." "Yeah," said Suzana. "They're like the Kardashians of zoo animals. — Dave Barry