Theopisti Kefala Quotes & Sayings

What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?
If you feel called to write a book, consider it a gift. Look around you. What assistance is the universe offering you as support? I was given an amazing mentor, a poet, Eleanor Drewry Dolan, who taught me the importance of every word. To my utter amazement, there were times she found it necessary to consult three dictionaries to evaluate one word. — Kathleen Grissom

When you are in harmony with love and positivity, everything you want will be pushed in your direction and given to you. — Tisha Marie Payton, MHR

It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself. — Khaled Hosseini

If performance of duty is part of excellence, then it should give satisfaction and happiness. — Anuj Bajaj

If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries. — Wendy Kopp

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. — Charles Bukowski

It's a dimissive term to say the Irish team are plucky because it rings back to the old days when we went out and gave it a lash, set our hair on fire and ran after the opposition for 20 minutes and, if they survived that, they beat us by 50 points. — Eddie O'Sullivan

Relax. Cultivate your children's capabilities. Maximize their strengths. Do not handicap their unique skills by spending too much time on making them average in everything. Help them create their own style, and appreciate your children for who God created them to be. — Tamara L. Chilver

There is is again, that slight stinging sensation of the cheeks. It's our body's light speed response to the world showing us up. And it's one of life's most unpleasant feelings, leaving one to wonder what evolutionary purpose it could possible serve. — Amor Towles

You decline?" he cried, almost defiantly. " 'Decline' isn't the word. A man doesn't decline an insult. — Henry James

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it. — Amy Pascal

There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body. — David Levithan