Stierle And Rettig Quotes & Sayings

I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around. — Louis Sachar

When there has been a problem in your marriage, you cannot forever go on thinking, 'I am the most terrible person in the world and he is the most wonderful person.' You cannot live in a marriage that is unequal, because after a while, you are just worn out. — Kimberly Quinn

As if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown off. — Christopher Moore

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse. — Pierre Corneille

Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii? — Erwin W. Lutzer

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact. — Alan Rickman

A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it. — Virgil Thomson

Grief dares us to love once more. — Terry Tempest Williams

Ucho w liczbach: A youthful ear can hear ten octaves of sound, spanning a range from about thirty to twelve tousand vibrations a second. The avarege ear can distinguish sounds a seventeenth of a tone apart. From top to bottom we hear about fourtheen tousend discriminable tones. — Oliver Sacks

So are you happy? he asks.
I hate it when anyone asks me that. It's such a loaded fucking question. Are they talking aggregate years? Doesn't it depend on the day, the moment? Or are they referring to last year or last month? — Terry McMillan

I just don't want to let go of you tonight. So sue me. — Kahlen Aymes

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. — Vicki Baum

My first exposure to the vocabulary of inter-beingness was through the writings of Thich Nhat Hahn, to whom I remain enormously grateful. — Deepak Chopra

I was raised in the greatest of homes ... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much ... he was a good man, a real simple man ... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun. — Max Lucado