Tristia Author Quotes & Sayings

I don't think I have some special gift for knowing what's in your heart. I think we both do. — Galt Niederhoffer

Life being full of sense and devotion to a significant goal, makes looking for my destination a significant goal — Sunday Adelaja

When I rest my head on the couch I know that it's coming, coming like something in the mail, something sent away for. We know it is coming, but are not sure when
weeks? months? She is fifty one. I am twenty-one. My sister is twenty-three. My brothers are twenty-four and seven.
We are ready. We are not ready. People know.
Our house sits on a sinkhole. Our house is the one being swept up in the tornado, the little train-set model floating helplessly, pathetically around in the howling black funnel. We're weak and tiny. We're Grenada. There are men parachuting from the sky.
We are waiting for everything to finally stop working
the organs and systems, one by one, throwing up their hands
"The jig is up," says the endocrine; "I did what I could," says the stomach, or what's left of it; "We'll get em next time," adds the heart, with a friendly punch to the shoulder. — Dave Eggers

Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style. — P.D. James

Messages that emphasis on you! You!! Promotes selfishness. — Sunday Adelaja

I know myself a Man
Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing. — Sir John Davies

Do something: You can always correct something but you can never correct nothing. — Dale C. Bronner

If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today. — Kwasi Kwarteng

Poverty is a great equalizer — John Grisham

If your activities don't match your priorities, you are wasting your life. — Rick Warren

I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

studios down. (He also thought, frankly, that making us the stewards of both entities would guarantee that Pixar's traditions didn't get overtaken by those of the much larger corporation, the Walt Disney Company.) — Ed Catmull

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when ... — Pablo Neruda

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones. — Kevin McCloud

I don't want to ever say to somebody, 'You don't have to see it. It's not good.' I'm done with that. I'd love to just do things that I respect. That being said, I do have two children to put through school, so we'll see if I can put my money where my mouth is, but I would love to just work with people I respect. — Kathryn Hahn