Bestiary Quotes

#1. Words travel, because the word arctic comes from arktos, Greek for bear. Cancer comes from the Greek word for crab, karkinos. Memory, or one of its locations in the brain, the hippocampus, means seahorse. A bestiary is buried in our language.

Rebecca Solnit

#2. My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.

Jenny Offill

#3. Eric has said that I carry close to my chest a ball of barbed wire that I sometimes throw at other people.

Weike Wang

#4. We can trust the Savior even when we can't trust ourselves.

Beverly Lewis

#5. He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

Pope Francis

#6. While I was trying to write, I was trying to grow.

Whitaker Chambers

#7. You see, to me, it doesn't really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly don't give a damn about who belongs to either political party.

Richard Trumka

#8. Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.

Johnny Depp

#9. Marty, my mother used to say "Never get greedy with God." I think what she meant was "Don't dare ask for more if you already have what you need."

James Patterson

#10. Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Nicolas Roeg

#11. then p'r'aps we may get into what the 'Merrikins call a fix, and the English a qvestion o' privileges.

Charles Dickens

#12. Genuine holiness is genuine Christlikeness, and genuine Christlikeness is genuine humanness - the only genuine humanness there is.

J.I. Packer

#13. The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.

Rajneesh

#14. Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being ...

Simone Weil

#15. True friends: only a few have 'em, but only a few will admit that they don't.

Brian Celio