Smartmouth Virginia Quotes & Sayings

You know that this vignette and that vignette belong side by side, you know that a certain turn of phrase you've been saving will probably work best within a given section of the narrative. As in a jazz performance, writing lives or dies by what's produced in that moment. But that moment is attended by long preparation. — Teju Cole

Those who restrict themselves to mere words limit their gift, and may unintentionally lead believers to pride by increasing knowledge without an increased awareness of God's presence and power. It's in the trenches of Christlike ministry that we learn to become totally dependent upon God. Moving in the impossible through relying on God short-circuits the development of pride. — Bill Johnson

And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me. — Markus Zusak

Faith is the path
we are treading.
Love is the way
we are heading.
Hope is the star
we are seeking.
God is the one
we are meeting. — S. Tarr

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials. — Joseph Hume

I work because I love it. It's a projection of myself. It allows me to express my enthusiasm for music and film using the spoken word, which I love, and broadcasting, a medium which has always fascinated me. I'm very lucky. — Paul Gambaccini

When people start messing with their foreheads and can't lift their eyebrows, that's weird. — Courteney Cox

Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away? — Edmund Clarence Stedman

Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places. — W. H. Auden

The Kaiser was enough of a man to stand a tough, confidential message--and enough of a woman, presumably, to retreat if it could be made to look glamorous. — Edmund Morris

Once you know what the story is and get it right - as right as you can, anyway - it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. — Stephen King

But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me. — Olga Korbut

Only those who commit to following their own artistic path can look back and see this issue in clear perspective: the real question about acceptance is not whether your work will be viewed as art, but whether it will be viewed as your art. APPROVAL — David Bayles

She loves me for the way I never leave her .. and I love her for the thousand secret ways she makes me stay — Michael Xavier

Live it up so you can write it down. — Ernest Hemingway,