Chagrin Saddlery Quotes

#1. As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never best found there, and it is subverted, time and again, by ancient savagery and superstition.

Sam Harris

#2. One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.

Afrojack

#3. She carries chaos like an overcoat.

Ann Aguirre

#4. HOLY MOTHER EFFING SPARKLY VAMPIRES IS HE HOT

Fanny Merkin

#5. Because the Beloved wants to know, unseen things become manifest. Hiding is the hidden purpose of creation.

Rumi

#6. Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level.

Jane Yolen

#7. If when she is aged you cannot see in the eyes of a woman the youth she was at eighteen, then it is not she that is old but you that are blind.

Mark Helprin

#8. My father believed it was a cancerous lump, not because my mother was genetically prone to such a thing, but because he was looking out for the saboteur of his wonderful life.

Sarah Winman

#9. England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there.

Sylvia Plath

#10. In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil.

Randall Jarrell

#11. When you whisper about something, it's too big, and you can't get it under control and take control of it.

Joan Rivers

#12. If you're really looking for answers, look past me. But if you're interested in how I got to where I am, I will be as honest as possible.

Rich Mullins

#13. The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste ... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory

Sunita Narain