262969b92b Quotes

#1. Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them.

Laurence Steinberg

#2. Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

Charles Spurgeon

#3. Waiting for something horrible to happen is almost more draining than it actually happening.

Erin Kelly

#4. I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.

Sarah Dessen

#5. Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

Paul Cezanne

#6. I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.

Richard Dawkins

#7. My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.

Jessica Walter

#8. I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.

Amy Hempel

#9. I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

John Baldessari

#10. It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.

Maggie Shayne

#11. You will see at precisely what moment the writer ceases to think of his character as an instrument to be manipulated and think of him as someone with whom he has fallen in love. For it is always, must always be, a matter of love.

Richard Selzer

#12. It was that same old spiralling argument, and again he didn't have the energy to fight his corner. 'When you put it like that, I guess it doesn't sound too ridiculous.

Alastair Reynolds