Trompeter 14949 Quotes & Sayings

What does it mean, this notion of ... reading? ... it returns us to a reckoning with time. In the midst of a book, we have no choice but to be patient, to take each thing in its moment, to let the narrative prevail. Even more, we are reminded of all we need to savor
this instant, this scene, this line. We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little, by stepping back from the noise, the tumult, to discover our reflections in another mind. As we do, we join a broader conversation, by which we both transcend ourselves and are enlarged. — David L. Ulin

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you. — L.M. Montgomery

I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence. — Valerie June

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words. — Craig Claiborne

It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous. — John Steinbeck

Act as if you were separate from nothing, and no one, and you will heal your world tomorrow. — Neale Donald Walsch

All these sorts of book feature in The Year of Reading Dangerously, which could yet be called Fifty Shades of Great. — Andy Miller

They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words. — Edward O. Wilson

I put all my hope in a third day God.
But I live in a second-day world. — John Ortberg

Enobaria smiles at Johanna. 'Don't look so smug,' says Johanna. 'We'll kill you anyway. — Suzanne Collins

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings. — Rumi

Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf — Dan Millman

We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor inevitable, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we imagine. — Yuval Noah Harari