Smoky Mountain Christmas Quotes & Sayings

Wisdom doesn't come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have. — Anthony Marais

I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for the best. Over seven years, I was rejected seven times on three different books. The fourth attempt was picked up by a small publisher, and I still have great memories of staying up all night, talking to my brother and sisters (my dad called me at 2:30 in the morning because I was overseas). — Markus Zusak

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do. — Tullian Tchividjian

Was tall in a way she associated with fun-house mirrors: rail-thin legs and arms that went on forever. — Joe Hill

It is too late in the day-there are simply too many of us now-to follow Thoreau into the woods, to look to nature to somehow cure or undo culture. — Michael Pollan

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others. — Jack Weatherford

Peacemakers not only live, they rule life. — Baltasar Gracian

Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice. — Albert Einstein