Quotes About The Inklings

#1. Meditation is the art of silencing the mind so that you may hear the inklings of the Soul.

Manprit Kaur

#2. Oxford in the Inklings' day was not so different in look and smell from the Oxford of today. Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation. Then, as now, there was bound to be disappointment.

Philip Zaleski

#3. The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair.

Philip Zaleski

#4. The success of the Inklings also helps us to see criticism in a positive light. There are, unfortunately, people who boost their own sense of importance by criticizing others as a matter of principle. Yet within this community, criticism was a mark of respect and commitment.

Alister E. McGrath

#5. The author observes of the Inklings, "they make a perfect compass rose of faith: talking the Catholic, Lewis the "mere Christian," Williams the Anglican, Barfield the esotericist.

Philip Zaleski

#6. This is one of the difficulties and pleasures of studying the Inklings; Christians all, they offer, along with the expected 20th-century psychological explanations for behavior, unexpected spiritual ones.

Philip Zaleski

#7. We believe that whatever feels at first like joy is not. Or is, but will not last. Or should not last. We feel so sure of this that we will undermine our own inklings of joy, blunting the pain we think awaits.

Anneli Rufus

#8. Honor your desire for a new life. Say yes to the small inklings of interest and curiosity that present themselves each day.

Lynn A. Robinson

#9. To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

Sarah Kane

#10. We are about the hurried business of living life while missing it in the very process of living it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going.

Cecelia Ahern

#12. I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles, if I had to. The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

John Updike

#13. No milk, gone out for breakfast, then to Hamleys, want to beat crowds. PS Know who killed Quine.

Robert Galbraith

#14. When you win an election, you are always inclined to believe you won for the reasons you wanted to win.

William Galston

#15. I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

#16. Write something that people might not "enjoy" but will never forget.

Chuck Palahniuk

#17. All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

H.G.Wells

#18. Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.

Eudora Welty

#19. I'm not in love with David Petraeus. But I think he does present a terrific role model.

Paula Broadwell

#20. Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.

Iain Banks

#21. The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.

Reggie Watts

#22. My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.

Gary Kemp

#23. When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.

Ben Lerner

#24. God knows I tried my best to learn the ways of this world, even had inklings we could be glorious; but after all that's happened, the inkles ain't easy anymore. I mean - what kind of fucken life is this?

D.B.C. Pierre

#25. Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will.

Priscilla Shirer