Vernette Stowers Quotes & Sayings

I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence that the world, including many prose writers, doesn't recognize as discipline. It is, though. It's the discipline to endure hours that you refuse to fill with anything but the possibility of poetry, though you may in fact not be able to write a word of it just then, and though it may be playing practical havoc with your life. It's the discipline of preparedness. — Christian Wiman

There is always a delightful sense of movement, vibration and life. — Theodore Robinson

There is no art without Eros. — Max Frisch

Friendship's enemy is betrayal. — Toba Beta

I believe in the person I want to become — Lana Del Rey

Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a substance, or the way it was transformed in chemical reactions, never forgot anything he read, or was told, about the phenomena of chemistry. He seemed indifferent, or inattentive, to most things else, being wholly dedicated to his single passion, chemistry. It was this pure and passionate absorption in phenomena-noticing everything, forgetting nothing-that constituted Scheele's special strength. — Oliver Sacks

sharing a strong, five-second greeting each day with your spouse can become a long-term blessing to your relationship. Your greeting should say, "You are priceless to me," rather — Alex Kendrick

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace. — Zig Ziglar

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity. — Thomas Moore

Life is a journey, education is our pleasure and our memory. — Debasish Mridha