Wayside Pulpit Quotes & Sayings

To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms. — John Leonard

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things. — George Lucas

Potential, and the will to deploy it. That's all magic is in the end, you know. — Richard K. Morgan

My flower is somewhere out there... — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

They make you powerful. Each line is a road traveled, an experience you had, whether it was good or bad. Each mark is proof of pain in the past, not the present. You are a survivor, you are a warrior. — T.M. Frazier

As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem. — Edward Hirsch

I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife. — Bella Freud

Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me. — Heidi W. Durrow

The aggregate appearance is of dignity and dissoluteness. The aggregate voice is a defiant prayer. But the spirit of the whole is processional. The power, that has said to all these things that they are damned, is dogmatic science. But they'll march! The little harlots will caper and the freaks will distract the attention and the clowns will break the rhythm of the whole with their buffooneries. But the solidity of the procession as a whole, the solidity of things which pass and pass and pass, and keep on and keep on coming, the irresistibleness of things that neither threaten, nor jeer, nor defy, but arrange themselves in mass formations that pass and pass and keep on passing. So, by the damned, I mean the excluded. — Charles Fort

It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories. — Harrison Ford