Gaspard Manesse Quotes

#1. Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.

Ann Landers

#2. A wild dedication of yourselves
To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.

William Shakespeare

#3. Every book you read may not save your life but some of them will.

Adam C. Stanley

#4. Not being able to govern events, I govern myself

Michel De Montaigne

#5. They have taught man that he is a hopeless misfit made of two elements, both symbols of death. A body without a soul is a corpse, a soul without a body is a ghost- yet such is their image of man's nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost, (john Galt)

Ayn Rand

#6. It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

Ram Dass

#8. It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

Virginia Woolf

#9. as we Tibetans lived quite happily for many centuries behind our wall of mountains - the

Dalai Lama XIV

#10. But no punishment, however sure and severe, was of any avail against the attraction of the fields and woods. It had other uses, developing memory, etc., but in keeping us at home it was of no use at all.

John Muir

#11. I should kill you," Kallan whispered, "and watch your blood run with the cries of my people. If I kill you, all my troubles end. And I go home to Lorlenalin, my father's death avenged.

Angela B. Chrysler

#12. You think of yourself
light, fast, free
free of earth, free of bondage to your body. In your 'perfect' body, you are in control, addicted to the light that keeps you out of body. You're a swan maiden, addicted to wings, addicted to spirit. You refused to eat in order to fly.

Marion Woodman