Herridge Pen Quotes

#1. We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work, is not to get persons to join the church or to give up their bad habits or to do anything else than this, to accept Jesus Christ, as their Saviour.

R.A. Torrey

#2. A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster.

Loren Weisman

#3. Dickens' London was a place of the mind, but it was also a real place. Much of what we take today to be the marvellous imaginings of a visionary novelist turn out on inspection to be the reportage of a great observer.

Judith Flanders

#4. Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them.

Mason Cooley

#5. For a long time, I was portrayed as the Osama bin Laden of the Internet, and I really wanted to be able to tell my side of the story. I wanted to be able to explain exactly what I did and what I didn't do to people who thought they knew me.

Kevin Mitnick

#6. I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

Evelyn Waugh

#7. [he] had become the bloke in the joke: the last man on earth

Zadie Smith

#8. There are hardly any apprenticeships in care; hardly any schools preparing teenagers for jobs in care; and few signs that politicians know what to do to raise the status and rewards for what will soon be one of our most important industries.

Geoff Mulgan

#9. All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.

Robert Henri

#10. Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.

Katherine Anne Porter

#11. All I know is this: If you and papa are responsible for the way I am, then I thank you with all my heart, for it is the light and the joy of my life.

Armistead Maupin

#12. With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

Soren Kierkegaard