Slaters 5050 Quotes & Sayings

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A melody occurs to you; you sing it silently, inwardly ... ; you steep your being in it; it takes possession of all your strength and emotions, and during the time it lives in you, it effaces all that is fortuitous, evil, coarse and sad in you; it brings the world into harmony with you, it makes burdens light and gives wings to the benumbed. — Hermann Hesse

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning. — Carl Sagan

There are some writers who sweep us along so strongly in their current of energy--Normal mailer, Tom Wolfe, Toni Morrison, William F. Buckley, Jr., Hunter Thompson, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers--that we assume that when they go to work the words just flow. Nobody thinks of the effort they made every morning to turn on the switch. You also have to turn on the switch. Nobody is going to do it for you. — William Zinsser

Climate change is a serious problem. We all need to do what we can. Unless that means I've got to change stuff. Then I'm not doing it. — Craig Ferguson

Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse. — Gilbert Highet

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se. — Glenn Howerton

'Bell Choir Coast' is about a fictional land where I was able to start over, discover myself, and learn to take life a lot less seriously. — Sydney Wayser

we are only what we always were — Arthur Miller

Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active and not just passive admirers of tradition! — Carl Nielsen

I feel that nothing important ever happens that is not revealed to me beforehand. — Anne Hutchinson

The events which can not be prevented, must be directed. — Klemens Von Metternich