Tilahun Gessesse Quotes & Sayings

Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist. — Sara Sheridan

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers? — Friedrich Schiller

I trust the pictures to tell what I want to say. — Peter Sis

the Hacker Ethic, which instructs you to keep working until your hack tops previous efforts. — Steven Levy

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy. — Mason Cooley

As I had to do whenever I glimpsed this river, I thought of Phineas. Not of the tree and pain, but of one of his favorite tricks, Phineas in exaltation, balancing on one foot on the prow of a canoe like a river god, his raised arms invoking the air to support him, face transfigured, body a complex set of balances and compensations, each muscle aligned in perfection with all the others to maintain this supreme fantasy of achievement, his skin glowing from immersions, his whole body hanging between river and sky as though he had transcended gravity and might by gently pushing upward with his foot glide a little way higher and remain suspended in space, encompassing all the glory of the summer and offering it to the sky. — John Knowles

To conceal an action is deceit. Even the husband is not aware of the deceit [by wife]. Lying is also deceit. — Dada Bhagwan

Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention. — Mary Parker Follett

A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.' — Anthony De Mello

The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life. — Anthony Browne

The first rule of my speaking is: listen! — Larry King