Tccarlson Quotes & Sayings

It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages. — John Biggins

Gerat will be our astonishment in that day, and we shall then realize that it is not our works which remain, but the work which God has wrought through us in his good time without any effort of will and intention on our part. Once again we simply are to look away from ourselves to him who has himself accomplished all things for us and to follow him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

your second-hand bicycles in the alleyways — John Altman

don't look back, you are not going that way — Unkown Author

We all know what good writing is: It's the novel we can't put down, the poem we never forget, the speech that changes the way we look at the world. It's the article that tells us when, where, and how, the essay that clarifies what was hazy before. Good writing is the memo that gets action, the letter that says what a phone call can't. It's the movie that makes us cry, the TV show that makes us laugh, the lyrics to the song we can't stop singing, the advertisement that makes us buy. Good writing can take form in prose or poetry, fiction or nonfiction. It can be formal or informal, literary or colloquial. The rules and tools for achieving each are different, but one difficult-to-define quality runs through them all: style. "Effectiveness of assertion" was George Bernard Shaw's definition of style. "Proper words in proper places" was Jonathan Swift's. You — Mitchell Ivers

I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car. — Bruce Springsteen

In the eyes of others, we're often not who we imagine ourselves to be. — Gilly Macmillan

Happy Day After Christmas, Merry Rest of the Year, even when Christmas is over, The Light of the World is Still Here! — Matthew West

And insecurity kills all that is beautiful. — K. Bromberg

That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race. — George Lucas

How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want. — Barbara Kingsolver

A snowfall softens all the hard noises and hard corners. It's a natural liar. I saw the sky sprinkle down a hundred, a thousand little white lies, and decided I didn't owe Orion anything. — Marie Rutkoski