Memos Canvas Quotes

#1. The doctrine of the atonement is to my mind one of the surest proofs of the divine inspiration of Holy Scripture.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#2. One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.

Jean Anouilh

#3. My mother had soft hands that smelled like soap, and a smile like the first bit of sunlight creeping over a trimmed lawn.

Lauren Oliver

#4. Our loss put six feet under ground
Is measured by the magnolia's root;
Our gain's the intellectual sound
Of death's feet round a weedy tomb.

Allen Tate

#5. Be the designer of your own future.

Debasish Mridha

#6. A pit rises in my stomach, hard and full. My breathing stops for a moment, then starts again, this time shallower. My mouth goes dry, and I feel my heart pounding. It is over, I know, and I am right.

Nicholas Sparks

#7. Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#8. Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

Sarah Dessen

#9. The humble Cumulus humilis - never hurt a soul.

Gavin Pretor-Pinney

#10. As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.

Luc De Clapiers

#11. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#12. It'll make you feel better."
"By making me dead?" I asked. "I mean, I'm sure that would make my headache go away, but that's a heck of a side effect.

Rachel Hawkins

#13. In most Western economies, the general relationship is not in fact between the rate of inflation and the level of unemployment, but between the rate of change of inflation and the rate of change of unemployment.

Paul Ormerod

#14. No single move traps the king.

David Hare

#15. Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.

Sheryl Lee