Terletour Quotes & Sayings

Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow.

~Song of the Sparrow — Lisa Ann Sandell

Six months ago when she first came up with the idea to kill Wilson, back when she was living in Memphis, she'd started going to church again. Since she was spending so much time thinking about sinister things, the least she could do, she reasoned, was to think about God and his love twice a week at church so that she wouldn't become a total sociopath. And rather than kill other people who were stand-ins for the person she really wanted to kill, like serial killers did, she'd be kind and generous to others and hone in on the one who deserved to die. And her plan had worked extremely well. Since she'd started planning to kill Wilson, and then decided to destroy his family instead, she felt no animosity toward anyone but him. Almost none at all! — Elizabeth Stuckey-French

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear. — Ram Dass

A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must be completed by the work of criticism, the work of judging. The undemanding reader fails to satisfy this requirement, probably even more than he fails to analyze and interpret. He not only makes no effort to understand; he also dismisses a book simply by putting it aside and forgetting it. Worse than faintly praising it, he damns it by giving it no critical consideration whatever. — Mortimer J. Adler

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. — Mark Twain

Make yourself sleep? Oh, don't think of it that way." Reed let her pass him. "It's an indulgence, not a duty. 'Nature requires five, custom gives seven, laziness takes nine, and wickedness eleven.' Try to be wicked. — Caroline Stevermer

There are no voids when you choose to avoid the people, places and things that create the voids. — Robert J. Braathe

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny. — Jeff Probst

I feel really lucky to have found musical success before I'm 30, to be doing absolutely what I want to do. I would be quite happy if I died tomorrow. — Dido Armstrong

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking. — Nicholas G. Carr

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are. — Andy Hargreaves