Stedra Vecera Quotes & Sayings

You can be all that you want to be.
Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Jason Lycurgus. Who, driven perhaps by the compulsion of the flamboyant name given him by the sardonic embittered woodenlegged indomitable father who perhaps still believed with his heart that what he wanted to be was a classicist schoolteacher, rode up the Natchez Trace one day in 1811 with a pair of fine pistols and one meagre saddlebag on a small lightwaisted but stronghocked mare which could do the first two furlongs in definitely under the halfminute and the next two in not appreciably more, though that was all. — William Faulkner

In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out. — J.G. Ballard

When you learn to say thank you, you see the world anew. — Oprah Winfrey

For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified. — Helen Keller

ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours. — Maria Callas

Developmental trauma occurs when "emotional pain cannot find a relational home in which it can be held."1 In retrospect, I can see that this was the case for — Mark Epstein

At each step there is a small moment of transformation that cannot be overlooked or rushed. And these moments should not be, because they are beautiful. — Anne Ursu

Some said, "John, print it"; others said "Not so." Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No." — John Bunyan

Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader's soul.
The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me. — Stephen Jay Gould

No one referred to
Fearghus the Destroyer as the life of anyone's party. — G.A. Aiken

She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally yielded before anyone with strong willpower, especially if it was a man, not because she was naturally submissive, but because strong male willpower gave her a feeling of safety and trust, together with acceptance and a desire to give in. — Amos Oz

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. — Vladimir Nabokov