Renteria Vineyard Quotes

#1. Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time

Ellen Hopkins

#2. There is something absent in me, I thought. Something incomplete. Even my mother couldn't describe me. There was something empty in me that in other people was full.

Julie Schumacher

#3. He kissed her, and knew he was trying to tell her the depth of how he felt. Even as he lost himself in her, felt her hair sweep across his face, his chest, her lips meet his skin, her fingers, he understood that there were people for whom one other was their missing part.

Jojo Moyes

#4. For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

Alan Lightman

#5. Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power.

Paul MacCready

#6. Words spoken in the heat of the moment may be forgiven; words preserved for ever on parchment may overreach their mark once passion has abated.

Susan Kay

#7. I have grown up in the bright light of America.

John Edwards

#8. Call me idealistic, but the genesis of great companies is answering simple questions that change the world, not the desire to become rich.

Guy Kawasaki

#9. O you who have borne even heavier things, to these too, God will grant an end!

Virgil

#10. (Everywhere I go as a writer - especially if I'm in drag as a "memoirist" - such fears seem to be first and foremost on people's minds. People seem hungry, above all else, for permission, and a guarantee against bad consequences. The first, I try to give; the second is beyond my power.)

Maggie Nelson