Straubinger Flutes Quotes & Sayings

We pity the poor heathen who worships a god of stone, and yet we worship a god of gold. Where — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He was someone who had to live alone, someone who found it difficult to be with others for any length of time, because he only had one mode - that discreet art of withdrawal which had, no doubt, taken him years to perfect. He had no other strategies for getting along with people and, though his colleagues probably saw this as the mark of a gentle, erudite, considerate soul, I was suddenly able to see right through it. Not because I was so very perceptive, but because I was so like him. He had been living in that one mode for so long, he had almost forgotten about it, but I was a near-beginner, and for me it was painfully obvious. — John Burnside

I always dread the process of writing because I'm not a writer. I'm an audible guy, I'm a verbal guy. I love to talk. I write a book every couple years, but it just takes everything out of me to get a book out. — T.C. Boyle

I definitely ran with a pack of hoodlums, that's for sure. — Kristen Wiig

Confined to common life thy numbers flow,
And neither soar too high nor sink too low;
There strength and ease in graceful union meet,
Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet;
Yet powerful to abash the from of crime
And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme.
[Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri,
Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores
Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus

Men with sound eyes need not concern themselves with the arguments of blind men to prove that seeing cannot occur. — Olaf Stapledon

We're part of each other's lives. We're in each other's stories. — Michelle Akers

I love what's left after love has been tested. — Stephen Dunn

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A child screams with joy and a child screams with pain, and the difference is in the timbre of that scream. Decibels of joy strike the inner ear differently from those of pain. — Fred D'Aguiar

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here. — Michel Onfray

God is able to do anything. All things are possible with Him, but we must not quit praying. — Joyce Meyer

and can you blame them? I mean, look at me," Cal said, one hand sweeping to take in his frame. — Jonathan P. Brazee