St. Sergius Of Radonezh Quotes & Sayings

I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours. — Annie Fellows Johnston

No one could leave the group by his or her own volition and put the group at risk of having its secrets revealed. — Judith Spencer

I'm more of a man then you'll ever be, I'm more of a woman then you'll ever get. — Jonathan Larson

Knowing how to free oneself is nothing; the difficult thing is knowing how to live with that freedom. — Andre Gide

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process. — Anita Desai

I try whistling to fill in the silence. The soprano sax from Coltrane's "My Favorite Things," though of course my dubious whistling doesn't come anywhere near the complex, lightning-quick original. I just add bits so what I hear in my head approximates the sound. Better than nothing, I figure. — Haruki Murakami

Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world. — Seamus Heaney

The great do not always prevail. — Aesop

It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear. — Gautama Buddha