Carolyn Shada Quotes

#1. Absence is a curious thing. When friends are absent they seem to loom ever larger, till the lack of them is all one can feel.

Libba Bray

#2. Storytelling is a gift, but writing is a learned art.

Beem Weeks

#3. Faith my homegirl. I just wanna send a shout out to Faith. Hey girl.

Tupac Shakur

#4. Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

Christine Keeler

#5. Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#6. I've always felt really lucky to get to work with really great filmmakers. For me, the whole objective is just to hopefully be of service to what they want.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#7. I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I had no time - and so I became a compulsive outliner of everything. Ever since then, my process has consisted of trying to forcibly rid myself of that compulsion.

Jonathan Dee

#8. Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

Aristotle.

#9. People were forever digging up events that had taken place a long time ago. And what was the point in doing this if the effect was merely to poison the present? There were many wrongs in the past, but did it help to keep bringing them up and giving them a fresh airing?

Alexander McCall Smith

#10. One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

Ruth Reichl

#11. The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.

Edith Sitwell

#12. Each child born on earth Is a unique promise of God To God Himself.

Sri Chinmoy

#13. The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.

John Darnielle

#14. Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.

Bob Ainsworth

#15. Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln