Tina Sprout Quotes & Sayings

Over the centuries, this interpretation and reinterpretation creates a long chain connecting a writer to all future readers- who frequently read each other as well as the original. Virginia Woolf had a beautiful vision of generations interlinked in this way: of how "minds are threaded together- how any live mind is of the very same stuff as Plato's & Euripides ... It is this common mind that binds the whole world together; & all the world is mind." This capacity for living on through readers' inner worlds over long periods of history is what makes a book like the 'Essays' a true classic. As it is reborn differently in each mind, it also brings those minds together. — Sarah Bakewell

If you're running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time. If you're trying to master a new language, try it one word at a time. There are 365 days in the average year. Divide any project by 365 and you'll find that no job is all that intimidating. — Charles R. Swindoll

Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn. — Kalidasa

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. — Stephen Fry

You might be a redneck if your wife keeps a can of Vienna sausage in her purse. — Jeff Foxworthy

What I really like doing is taking risks, musically. — Casey Abrams

To make of "the truth" a goddess amounts to turning the mere notion of something, namely the concept of the essence of truth, into a "personality. — Martin Heidegger

I mean, everything beats me, even twos and threes. — Frank Portman

... "shagging" - a quasi-comical activity, like belching or farting, except it was more taboo and more necessary than these. — Amit Chaudhuri

A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it. — James Webb Young

Stephen Harper is trying to load the dice between now and the next election in his own favour. Never before in the history of Canada has a government tried to use its majority to unilaterally change Canada's election laws with no support from any political party. — Thomas Mulcair

- All things that endure for a long time are little by little so greatly permeated by reason that their origin in unreason becomes improbable. Does — Friedrich Nietzsche