Schaffert 4 Quotes

#1. In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Amy Tan

#2. Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away.

Nancy Pearl

#3. Well, no. They are both serious epidemics, but shame is a silent epidemic. People understand violence and can talk about it. We're still afraid of shame. Even the word is uncomfortable.

Brene Brown

#4. I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.

Kirsty Coventry

#5. As for the insane doctrine that being born in a country gives some right to the possession of the soil of that country, it hardly requires notice.

George Saintsbury

#6. Hitchcock's murder set-pieces are so potent, they can galvanize (and frighten) even a viewer who's seen them before!

Leonard Maltin

#7. And then she went off into a gale of her great roaring laughter. "Oh, dear," said Freddy. "Now look what I've done!

Walter R. Brooks

#8. He doesn't know as much as he thinks," Preservation whispered. "That is his weakness. The . . . weakness . . . of all clever men

Brandon Sanderson

#9. You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young only minutes ago.

Timothy Schaffert

#10. What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

Don Zimmer

#11. Kindness to your family costs you almost nothing but affords a wealth of goodwill.

Timothy Schaffert

#12. If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

Carrie Fisher

#13. Even when not in the act of writing Muscatine a letter, I was often composing one in my mind, situating the words just so, plunking one here, then one there, gauging how to sound worthy of his regard.

Timothy Schaffert

#14. Are you for real? You can't use another friend? We can't be 'just friends'? - Liz. Hell no - Thoreau.

Whitney G.

#15. After we ate our heaping slice of humble pie, we asked the missus if she could at least serve it up a la mode next time.

Timothy Schaffert

#16. Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.

Aaron Rodgers

#17. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

Patrick Rothfuss

#18. Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

Carly Simon

#19. Tiff needed the words on the page to become the voice in her head, her own voice, or an approximation of it, and she needed the paper and the sound of the scratch of her chapped fingertips against it as she fiddled with each page.

Timothy Schaffert

#20. He took from his coat pocket a handful of wadded-up cash, as if children had paid him directly with their sweaty clutches of dollar bills.

Timothy Schaffert