Writerial Quotes & Sayings

Call and Tamara screamed. The car swerved, Call's hands heedless on the wheel. That made Tamara scream even harder. All the screams woke Jasper and Aaron, who added their voices to the screaming. Havoc started to bark. Throughout all the commotion, Master Rufus just floated in the center of the car, looking annoyed and - translucent. — Holly Black

The point is this. The arts are not the pretty but irrelevant bits around the border of reality. They are the highways into the center of a reality which cannot be glimpsed, let alone grasped, any other way. The present world is good, but broken and in any case incomplete; art of all kinds enables us to understand that paradox in its many dimensions. But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold-and yet if you'd never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn't believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed. Perhaps art can show something of that, can glimpse the future possibilities pregnant within the present time. — N. T. Wright

I would go out with people who really didn't like me very much and then wonder why we weren't getting married! — Mariella Frostrup

There's two things that you don't listen to: flattery, which can't help you, and abuse, which can't hurt you. You have to look at the facts. — Jim Tressel

Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions. — Francis Quarles

For an ordinary trooper like him, ignorance was not simply an abstract value. It was in the manual. — Alan Dean Foster

Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there. — J. August Richards

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. — Ludwig Wittgenstein