Woodrells Quotes & Sayings

In the end the number of things he thought of saying all at once nearly suffocated him and he became silent. — C.S. Lewis

I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do. — Gail Sheehy

Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ice. The blade of the skate floats, she knows, on a thin film of water, which it melts by pressure and which freezes behind it. This is the freedom of the present tense, this sliding edge. — Margaret Atwood

Forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do,
the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail — Masashi Kishimoto

The United States is both a conservative power, defending the international status quo against those who would change it through violence, and a revolutionary power seeking to replace — Walter Russell Mead

... -- the periwinkles looked exactly as if they were being poured down each side of the steps -- ... — Elizabeth Von Arnim

For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif. — William-Adolphe Bouguereau

The prophet engages in futuring fantasy. The prophet does not ask if the vision can be implemented, for questions of implementation are of no consequence until the vision can be imagined. The imagination must come before the implementation. Our culture is competent to implement almost anything and to imagine almost nothing. The same royal consciousness that make it possible to implement anything and everything is the one that shrinks imagination because imagination is a danger. Thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep on conjuring and proposing futures alternative to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one. — Walter Brueggemann

Do you know what else I think? I think I like the idea of Lola Carlyle worrying about me. He slid his knuckle along her jaw to her chin and she held her breath. — Rachel Gibson

I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a modern piece, I still want to tell a story. — Susan Stroman

A born king is a very rare being. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A person has to be comfortable in his or her own skin. — Fennel Hudson

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English. — Bertrand Russell

Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion. — Matthew Pearl

Truth is more than a mental exercise. — Thurgood Marshall