Marchette Quotes

#1. I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if the publisher doesn't like it, that's his privilege.

Marchette Chute

#2. I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.

Frederick Lenz

#3. In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

Paul Johnson

#4. Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.

Usher

#5. The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

Anatole Broyard

#6. No one can stop what God has for you,

Russell Wilson

#7. Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe

Oprah Winfrey

#8. All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.

Isaiah Berlin

#9. Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

Frank E. Peretti

#10. A delicious meal cooked by a colleague for many others nourishes not only the body but also the soul.

Danny Meyer

#11. A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon.

Margaret Atwood

#12. I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.

Vincente Minnelli

#13. A portrait is like an ornamental headstone. It is not for the subject, but for those who look upon it. For those you want to remember.

Julie Klassen

#14. I often think it would be such luxury to go mad, and not have to worry about anything. Others would have to worry for me, about me.

Charlotte Bronte

#15. Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.

Wynton Marsalis

#16. I firmly believe every book was meant to be written.

Marchette Chute