Calligraphic Flourishes Quotes

#1. For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. ... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go.

Margaret Atwood

#2. A mess of beautiful contradictions make her whole, she wears fire for skin but a storm lives in her soul.

Nikita Gill

#3. My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate ... and personal.

Robyn Carr

#4. He needs to go rub his soul against life.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.

Johnny Cash

#6. I wanted to know if she fucked the way she seemed to live - full of passion and fierce energy.

Nina Levine

#7. So their cheerleaders are ugly, their football players are wimps, and they're our archrivals because why?

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#8. The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#9. As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.

Jill Lepore

#10. ...let us remember that the Savior has given us a charge. He has given us a call to bring forth much fruit and has declared that we must work so well that the fruit will remain.

Mark E. Peterson