Grotto Network Quotes

#1. The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.

Patrick DeWitt

#2. Catholics have a reputation for severity, for judgment that comes down heavily.

Yann Martel

#3. No threatening the cat!" Mr. Snuggly said. No

Charlaine Harris

#4. Disrespect adheres to the ignorant; like wet leaves, breathed, on cold skin.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#5. It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

John Updike

#6. [If you] give into your [emotional] illusions, and you will find yourself lost in a maze with no exits, nor entrances, but winding paths that lead you in circles so many times that you grow familiar and comfortable with the very place you shouldn't be in.

A.J. Darkholme

#7. Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.

Seamus Heaney

#8. Because a book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else's head. You see out of the world through somebody else's eyes. It's very hard to hate people of a certain kind when you've just read a book by one of those people.

Neil Gaiman

#9. Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.

Stefan Zweig

#10. When we break a law (lie, steal, murder, fornicate, blaspheme, lust, hate, covet, gossip, dishonor authority) we are striking out at God's character and in essence saying, "I hate who you are." That is why sin is exceedingly sinful (Rom. 7:13).

Todd Friel

#11. Sure, black holes can kill us, and in a variety of interesting and gruesome ways. But, all in all, we may owe our very existence to them.

Philip Plait

#12. I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

Jim Lehrer

#13. The moon twangs its silver strings;
The river swoons into town;
The wind beds down in the pines,
Covers itself with stars.

George Elliott Clarke

#14. Because frequency is free in an online permission program, and much more effective offline, the marketer has the luxury of riding the impact curve up without a matching cost curve.

Seth Godin

#15. No, but your idea of what betters human life might differ from someone else's.' For

Alan Dean Foster