Sanora Babb Quotes

#1. For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour.

Katherine Bernhardt

#2. But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come.

Herman Melville

#3. If you can think of anything more terrifying than that happening to you in the middle of the night, then let's hear about it.

Roald Dahl

#4. His mind, shrinking from reality, ran for safety along these unimportant details.

Agatha Christie

#5. The stars were withdrawn, small, giving no light, unlike other nights when they seemed to hang large from the sky ready to be reached for and taken into our hands.

Sanora Babb

#6. I was so lost, didn't know what to do with myself,
I was my own worst enemy, I was lost and oh I needed help,
Then you came along, and saw what state I was in,
You picked me up, when I was down,
Showed me how to live again.

James Morrison

#7. What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

Thomas Pynchon

#8. I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

Lasse Hallstrom