Ostler Smith Quotes

#1. Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

Bernard De Mandeville

#2. Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

Lucinda Williams

#3. No rest for me anywhere. No rest from writing, awareness, insights, memories, fantasies, analogies, free associations. Writing becomes imperative for a surcharged head.

Anais Nin

#4. Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Baltasar Gracian

#5. In the wild, a mother and daughter stay together until one of them dies.

Jodi Picoult

#6. From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

J.K. Rowling

#7. I am the resurrection and the life.* Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. 26Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die.

Anonymous

#8. Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial life." Rather than representing a scientific achievement, this probably represents a flaw in our definition.

Gene Spafford

#9. History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

Jill Lepore

#10. If a tattoo is supposed to make a statement, that kid's body is just plain babbling.

Vincent H. O'Neil

#11. If only thy eyes flutter once, the bees lose their direction and the fighting men their aim!

Avijeet Das

#12. God took the record of all your sins-all your sexual failures-that made you a debtor to wrath, and instead of holding them up in front of your face and using them as the warrant to send you to hell, he put them in the palm of his Son's hand and nailed them to the cross.

John Piper

#13. Two more women sat, ready to judge her. She thought of all the times she'd imagined her audition for Juilliard. The people in front of her were not Juilliard professors, but

Diane Chamberlain

#14. I tell myself I will count to three , and when I'm done , I will move on.

Veronica Roth