Quotes About Schwenk

#1. Read Theodore Schwenk's marvelous book Sensitive Chaos (London, Rudolph Steiner Press, 1965),

Alan W. Watts

#2. The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.

Theodor Schwenk

#3. If I know somebody is coming 'round, it is incredibly difficult for me to work because I'm waiting for this interruption - even the children's comings and goings are interruptions. Cake-making is a good way of coming out of that space.

Rachel Cusk

#4. Proverbs 25:28 Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.

Patrick Schwenk

#5. Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

Francis Picabia

#6. You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

John Lanchester

#7. Too often we compare our weaknesses with other people's strengths only to find ourselves coming up short." We compare our worst to someone else's best which sets us up to sound like failures. Essentially, we begin lying to ourselves.

Ruth Schwenk

#8. From the beginning, the imported black men and women resisted their enslavement. Ultimately their resistance was controlled, and

Anonymous

#9. I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.

Tim Burton

#10. Change the rule and you will get a new number.

W. Edwards Deming

#11. You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain

Henry David Thoreau

#12. The solution to the novel's legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot. But the echoes that will remain in your mind after you've finished Reversible Errors will mainly have to do with the novel's other elements.

Wendy Lesser

#13. She said that life was too precious to cast away; that even the foulest and meanest expression of life was precious, full of grandeur and inestimable beauty, although we are often too blind to recognize it.

Christi Phillips