Altarpiece Quotes

#1. Once typecast as the indispensable altarpiece of a well-appointed living room, TVs have infected every human environment. The average American household has more television sets than people.

Seth Shostak

#2. The forest had many edges, like a lace altarpiece.

Annie Proulx

#3. ...what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history.

Mario Puzo

#4. No one had to tell me I was never going to be a home run hitter. I was hitting the same ball as the rest of the players, but when the big guys cracked one, it went out of the park. Mine went out of the infield.

Nellie Fox

#5. I could almost taste the thick, mouth-watering fog of manly power that seeped from his pores, smothering me beneath it. Just being near him filled me with an overpowering sense of intimidation, excitement, and nervous surrender all rolled into one general package of an amazing turn-on.

Johnny Stone

#6. New York ... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.

Lucius Beebe

#7. What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.

Tony Hoagland

#8. The work is done, but how no one can see;
'Tis this that makes the power not cease to be.

Lao-Tzu

#9. Why does a heart wear its eyes
into hell
like slivers of false sunshine

Fanny Howe

#10. It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.

Michael Cunningham

#11. We want the safety of yesterday even though we know it's not where God would have us.

Charles R. Swindoll

#12. When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is not. This helps you take the job seriously and do your best on everything you write.

John Steinbeck

#13. My work is incredibly important to me personally. It brings me joy and it brings me life and it brings me meaning. It doesn't necessarily have to be important to the people who read it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive.

Frederick Turner

#15. For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

Isabel Allende