Dinosaur Christmas Sayings

#1. The sighing of the devotee clears a path for him into the world unseen, and his tears wash away the sins of ages. All revelation follows the ecstasy; all knowledge that a book can never contain, that a language can never express, nor a teacher teach, comes to him of itself.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#2. The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. He was the same as everyone else: he carried his past inside him. There was no escape from it. No matter how hard you push it down, the truth always comes to the surface.

Louise Douglas

#4. What kind of sigh was that? Peril wondered. Was it an "I wish I were alone with Peril" sigh? Or a "worried about my students" sigh? Knowing Clay, it could also be a "we're all out of goats and I really wanted one" sigh.

Tui T. Sutherland

#5. The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day.

William Falconer

#6. He meticulously tries to get every hair in place. He tilts his head to look at himself from different angles, like there's some magic perspective in the mirror that could change the dimensions of his face'
-Olivia/Via thinking

R.J. Palacio

#7. Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.

Thomas Aquinas

#8. Sin silently cheered his father for being a dick right along with him and ignored the heated glares that they were both receiving.

Santino Hassell

#9. Our kitchen is warm; it's who we are. And it has everything. Honestly, I could get rid of the rest of the house and just live in the kitchen.

Ralph Lauren

#10. I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

Lucinda Williams

#11. John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

M.H. Abrams