Wertherin Quotes & Sayings

Finally, in the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November 1863 as Thanksgiving: a day to solemnly acknowledge the sacrifices made for the Union ... Shopping was part of the American Dream, too. So in 1939, at the urging of merchants, FDR moved Thanksgiving ahead a week, to lengthen the Christmas shopping season. And there it has remained, a day of national gluttony, retail pageantry, TV football, and remembrance of the Pilgrims, a folk so austere that they regarded Christmas as a corrupt Papist holiday. — Tony Horwitz

The first step in identifying "heresy" is to refuse all identifications with the subjective intuitions and experience of the "heretic," and to see his words only in an impersonal realm in which there is no dialogue - in which dialogue is denied a priori. — Thomas Merton

If someone says it's art, it's art. — Donald Judd

I jog every day, but I haven't had plastic surgery - though that's not to say if one day I look in the mirror and go 'Ugh!' I won't have something done. — Suzi Quatro

Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet. I meet others with the life I've lived, not just with my questions. — Krista Tippett

It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style. — Robert A. Heinlein

As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that. — Fran Kranz

The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation. — Patricia McCormick