Amarahs Corner Quotes

#1. And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.

Ezra Pound

#2. Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Rene Descartes

#3. I feel about John ['s gospel] like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.
(Following Jesus, p. 27.)

N. T. Wright

#4. Those who love nothing and hate nothing in the world, have no fetters.

Hermann Hesse

#5. Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

Michael Pollan

#6. In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

Victor Hugo

#7. But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.

Charles Hodge

#8. When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfil our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach.

Julia Cameron

#9. You need to change the questions you ask yourself and of your situations, in order to change the trajectory of your life. These are questions that will help you define and refine your purpose.

Archibald Marwizi

#10. To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.

Alberto Villoldo

#11. I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

Nathan Lane

#12. I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

Bob Gunton

#13. My experiences in the military, the private sector, and as a congressional staffer were at times almost enough to drive me crazy. Writing offered the all-too-often-cited creative outlet.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.