Steel Magnolia Remake Quotes & Sayings

The life of a free person is an offense to those attached to appearances and rules. — Paulo Coelho

To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality. — Washington Irving

All that gleaming leather and gold stamping and beautiful type belongs in the pine-panelled library of an English country home; it wants to be read by the fire in a gentleman's leather easy chair--not on a secondhand studio couch in a one-room hovel in a broken-down brownstone front. — Helene Hanff

For it is through humility, he knew, that holiness
and poetry
find entrance to the human soul. — Lan Samantha Chang

Now that that album's done [TModern Vampires of the City], I have time to revisit things that I was working on earlier, previous to it. I actually found it very helpful to be working on some music on my own. — Rostam Batmanglij

The strands (the gods) weave out of our mortal lives are like a pattern visible only from the heavens; we here on earth can only guess at their designs — Steven Saylor

I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run. — Emily Dickinson

This was my first exposure to the idea that one should have a system instead of a goal. The system was to continually look for better options. — Scott Adams