Otterberg Abbey Quotes

#1. The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book.

Gene Luen Yang

#2. Smiles and friendly nods are like fabric softeners for the face.

Peter Hedges

#3. People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

Lionel Shriver

#4. We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.

Jack Nicholson

#5. The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

Aristotle.

#6. One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

Lincoln Steffens

#7. Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.'

Mitch Albom

#8. I have that love for music, when you are finding either old gems that you never heard or newer stuff that perks your ear. It keeps you trying to look for new stuff to write about it. You don't spin your wheels. I take that same approach to music and books.

Corey Taylor

#9. We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

Paul David Tripp

#10. You have the capacity to pursue your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

K.d. Lang

#12. Do you value people who won't benefit you or only those who might contribute in some way to your success? Great team players truly value others as people, and they know and relate to what others value.

John C. Maxwell

#13. Don't take this the wrong way,but I hope you get stabbed again.Like,real soon.I loved kissing you all better.

Gena Showalter

#14. So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

Gerald Scarfe

#15. What is the difference between good and great? "Sacrifice

Tom Izzo