Longenbach Quotes

#1. 'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.

Claire Tomalin

#2. The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

Peter McWilliams

#3. You can't just sit there hating the wound, Tan, or indulging in bitterness. Whatever you become in life, always ask yourself, am I making more life or am I making more death?

Michael D. O'Brien

#4. You are someone worth loving

Anne Rice

#5. Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.

Shannon Hale

#6. I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.

Biz Stone

#7. I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.

Tim McGraw

#8. What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites?

Jean-Baptiste Say

#9. When you can program your own life, you're just going to program what you already like. Because of that, people's taste becomes much more narrow-minded.

Rob Zombie

#10. Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.

Joanna Scott

#11. Some debts should never be tallied, he says. I myself, I know what is owed me, but by God I know what I owe.

Hilary Mantel

#12. When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.

Ashley Judd

#13. I am not angry with anybody. But when I am alone it seems to me that I can see my friends in a clearer and rosier light than when I am with them; and when I loved and felt music best I lived far from it. It would seem that I must have distant perspectives in order that I may think well of things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. There's something about putting on a pair of skates, and getting out there and moving like nobody else can. Freedom is a word that comes to mind.

Randy Gardner

#15. The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.

Sebastian Horsley

#16. My life suddenly felt like an hourglass with a decision placed at my feet. Do I live as I am, or do I make a choice to become something else? No matter which way I went, I could end up regretting that choice.

Dannika Dark