Lectionary 2021 Quotes

#1. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Ernest Newman

#2. Then why don't you get married?" "I'm not sure. Mostly it's a question of how we'd affect each other, I suppose. Would

Robert B. Parker

#3. All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.

Carla H. Krueger

#4. Passepartout.' 'Passepartout suits me,' responded Mr. Fogg. 'You are well recommended to me; I hear a good report of you. You know my conditions?' 'Yes, monsieur.' 'Good! What time is it?' 'Twenty-two minutes after eleven,' returned Passepartout, drawing

Anonymous

#5. I delight to come to my bearings, ... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. Belief is so important in everything. You need to believe in magic. You need to believe in yourself. You need to believe in your family.

Edward Kitsis

#7. Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory ...

Jean-Georges Noverre

#8. What we have to do is act as clearly and with as pure motivation as is possible now, and that will sow the seeds for good action maybe in the twenty-second century.

Pico Iyer

#9. Surely it is important that people who love each other should be able to speak openly and truly about matters which touch them.

P.D. James

#10. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#11. He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness.

John Green

#12. Had he done it for her? "I know," said Iko with a dreaminess in her tone, though Cinder hadn't said anything. "He's fantastic." When

Marissa Meyer

#13. In America one of the first things done in a new State is to make the post go there; in the forests of Michigan there is no cabin so isolated, no valley so wild, but that letters and newspapers arrive at least once a week.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#14. Some people might say, 'Can we afford it?' I think that's asking the wrong question ... We should instead be asking, 'Can we really afford not to try?'

Andrew Lo