Thorbjorn Macbain Quotes & Sayings

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root. — May Sarton

Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions. — Oliver Kahn

The creature you find in Speak, Memory is rare enough to be zoo-worthy. He's not just smarter but somehow more effete than most of us without seeming put on. Resenting him for it would be like resenting a gazelle for her grace. He doesn't sound prissy painting himself as a cultivated synesthete who can hear colors and see music, nor vain talking as a polyglot who translates his own work back and forth into many languages. He's just your standard virtuoso aristocrat from a gilded age. Which is the miracle of his talent. He has shaped the book to highlight his own magnificent way of viewing the world, a viewpoint that so eats your head that you never really leave his very oddly bejeweled skull, and you value things in the book's context as he does, never missing what you otherwise adore in another kind of writer. — Mary Karr

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw. — Andrew Loomis

If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful — Dennis Prager

Churches should evaluate everything they do to determine how it can be done better. — Thom S. Rainer

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe. — Winston Churchill

Angels and demons are not mythical, they're real and are here, inside all of us, trying to dominate but only with our support. It's us who decides who we are. Fighting for good cause makes us hero and letting wrong things happen, makes us villain — Nikhil Kushwaha