Wernaske Quotes & Sayings

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality. — Will Self

Isn't it funny how the slightest glance or the tiniest touch can ameliorate the discomforts of even the coldest day. — Patrick Stevens

Of lips that I am yet to kiss,
and eyes
not met my own. — Lang Leav

Like the Buddha, we too have come from suchness, remain in suchness, and will return to suchness. We have come from nowhere and have nowhere to go. — Thich Nhat Hanh

However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. — Donald Hall

Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,"I am the do-er." — Ramana Maharshi

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership — Charles Lindbergh

A child's pleasure in listening to stories lies partly in waiting for things he expects to be repeated: situations, phrases, formulas. Just as in poems and songs the rhymes help to create the rhythm, so in prose narrative there are events that rhyme. — Italo Calvino

5) I fail daily, and that is why I succeed. — Scott Hildreth

The reality is that changes are coming ... They must come. You must share in bringing them. — John Hersey