Monastic Communities Quotes

#1. Monastic communities are to the great social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is to the human body.

Victor Hugo

#2. There are smiles and smiles; learn to tell the dark variety from the light.

Ray Bradbury

#3. My mother always said to keep my eyes open for the unexpected good, the little treasures.

Jane Kirkpatrick

#4. The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'

Ayelet Waldman

#5. The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.

William H. Whyte

#6. I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.

Sue Townsend

#7. It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

Nancy Gibbs

#8. MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

Ridley Scott