Westonians Quotes & Sayings

The true Church is not an institution to be kept apart from the world because the world "is common and unclean," but a vital heart of truth and love, beating with the life of Jesus, and sending abroad its sanctifying pulsations until nothing shall be common and unclean. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Is there no escape then?' said Frodo, looking around wildly. 'If I move I shall be seen and hunted! If I stay, I shall draw them to me! — J.R.R. Tolkien

The worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race. — Ayn Rand

We all think that an exception is going to be made in our case and were going to live forever. Being a human is actually arriving at the understanding that thats not going to be. Story is there to remind us that its just OK. — Ken Burns

Books
they come home hot in your hands and then by increments they warm your life, like heated bricks in a New England bed. — Robin R. Meyers

What is a mirror but water that refuses to budge? — Conchitina Cruz

If, while writing your novel, it starts "speaking" to you, don't answer back, keep it talking. — David John Griffin

I think camp is a really fascinating thing, and it's hard to define and hard to apply consciously. It's almost something you take from material that's already existed in the world, a reading of the world. But I think it speaks of a long tradition of gay reading of the world, before gays were allowed to be visible. — Todd Haynes

Mother told me once that some Westonians privately criticised Dad for retreating so soon. They apparently felt it would have been more dignified to have waited a week or so before running away. I think this view misses the essential point of running away, which is to do it the moment the idea has occurred to you. Only an obsessional procrastinator would cry, Let's run for our lives, but not till Wednesday afternoon. — John Cleese

Sugar," Beck interrupts my ruckus with a wink, "if chocolate is more fulfilling than sex, then someone isn't doing their job right. — Brooke Cumberland

Spreading the word on a zero budget is difficult. You find yourself spending all night on Twitter following people; using Facebook to leave messages on various club walls; commenting on YouTube clips and blog posts; giving interviews online and taking photos of bottles to send to websites in the hope that they feature you — Andrew Nicholson

I have a sentimental feeling for my very first cover I was on - it was 'Bazaar' Magazine. — Carol Alt

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. — Gustave Flaubert