Wiant House Quotes & Sayings

I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float out of me, she soak into the walls, and she don't come out till there be battles and little boys bump into the walls and squish out de crazy. — Orson Scott Card

Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort — Albert Einstein

Kathleen Norris' warning that "when we write from the center . . . when we write about what matters to us most, words will take us places we don't want to go. You begin to see that you will have to say things you don't want to say, that may even be dangerous to say, but are absolutely necessary."2 — Donald B. Cozzens

How did you find me?" I said, keeping my head ducked.
"It was easy," he said, taking a seat beside me. "All I did was follow the cursing. — Nicole Williams

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice. — Freddy Fender

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it. — Marcel Proust

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience. — Eudora Welty

All that mattered was him looking at me — Jonathan Safran Foer

Jean Louise interrupted. Hester, let me ask you something. I've been home since Saturday now, and since Saturday I've heard a great deal of talk about mongrelizin' the race, and it's led me to wonder if that's not rather an unfortunate phrase, and if probably it should be discarded from Southern jargon these days. It takes two races to mongrelize a race - if that's the right word - and when we white people holler about mongrelizin', isn't that something of a reflection on ourselves as a race? The message I get from it is that if it were lawful, there'd be a wholesale rush to marry Negroes. If I were a scholar, which I ain't, I would say that kind of talk has a deep psychological significance that's not particularly flattering to the one who talks it. At its best, it denotes an alarmin' mistrust of one's own race. — Harper Lee

I think that both pornography and the imposition (common in some areas of the world) of a dress code on women are problematic. — Alison Assiter

Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings. — John Gimlette