Hellenga Quotes

#1. I'd never heard of Robert Hellenga; I didn't think a book with the name 'Snakewoman of Little Egypt' would hold any appeal for me at all.

Carolyn See

#2. Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

Franz Grillparzer

#3. However far back you go you will find all experiences linked by slender threads.

Robert Hellenga

#4. I have been sorry for married women oftener than for old maids.

Florence Converse

#5. Every couple of years or so, when Daniel Clowes releases a new book, one can almost sense the rectal contraction across the collective seat of our humble profession.

Chris Ware

#6. There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

Thomas Carlyle

#7. He knew that he'd known her for less than a week, but now that she was gone he was continually probing his feelings for her, the way he might probe a sore tooth with his tongue, engaging her in imaginary conversations, imagining her saying such delightful things.

Robert Hellenga

#8. Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance; what was unimportant would recede into the shadows.

Robert Hellenga

#9. It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Charles Dickens

#10. I think more people are going to continue reading YA as well as reading other books because they have learned that they can find books there which they will truly love: a teenage protagonist is close enough to adult so readers of whichever age can sympathise and empathise with them.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#11. Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.

Robert Hellenga

#12. Sometimes pain is God's megaphone, his only way to get our attention.

Robert Hellenga

#13. What to do with the past? There was so much of it.

Robert Hellenga

#14. I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.

Sue Townsend

#15. My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#16. The only meaning our lives have is the meaning we give them.

Robert Hellenga

#17. If men and women are at all times supposed to be a kind of walking CV, constantly networking, constantly advertising themselves, then this 'body' is the prime locus for any understanding of the way in which the logic of employment overcodes our very comportment.

Nina Power

#18. He wondered what you had to do to lose your driver's license in Italy.

Robert Hellenga

#19. See the clock only when you have No work ... Don't see the clock when you are working ... Clock is a lock for success

Bill Gates

#20. Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.

Virginia Postrel

#21. Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we've got.

Robert Hellenga

#22. She heard melody and harmony and counterpoint; he heard something calling him from far, far away.

Robert Hellenga

#23. There was a time I didn't know your name
Why should I worry, cry in vain
but now she's gone, and I don't worry
cause I'm sittin' on top of the world.

Robert Hellenga

#24. Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#25. Life's a beach. Enjoy the Read.

Kerry Lonsdale