Scribes Flourishes Quotes

#1. You will have a choice: to adjust how you live daily or to stay the same.

Francis Chan

#2. We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can't get across that gully.

Adam Duritz

#3. The Disney animators' rules on adult females: mothers are perfect but imperiled; stepmothers are wicked and occasionally homicidal; godmothers are sweet things with magical powers.

Richard Corliss

#4. First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something.

Damien Chazelle

#5. The hammock hangs on hooks in two trees at the very back of the yard, one is a shortish tree that's only twice my tall and bent over, one is a million times high with silvery leaves.

Emma Donoghue

#6. I knelt a mortal; I rose an immortal.

Yann Martel

#7. Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#8. Ideas nearly always seem brilliant when they're hatched, so we never act on a new idea for at least twenty-four hours.

Steven D. Levitt

#9. Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?

Wislawa Szymborska

#10. There was nothing abstract or theoretical in his world. The stars had no significance. The sky was not interesting unless it showed probability of rain. He ate corn, corn, corn. He ate beans, beans, beans.

Warren Eyster

#11. Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.

Miguel De Cervantes