Shamma Clinic Quotes

#1. Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

Corita Kent

#2. He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.

Alexandra Bracken

#3. One of the key things is learning which bits of life you don't need to take seriously. Usually far more than you expect.

Penny Grubb

#4. I make a fabulous tofurkey for Thanksgiving. My Mexican-Italian family can't tell the difference.

Christian Serratos

#5. A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

Margaret Fuller

#6. Every child that receives life advice should keep in mind that in every parent's past, there's leftover booze and contraceptives.

Bauvard

#7. The fact that three-fifths of an octopus' neurons are not in their brain, but in their arms, suggests that each arm has a mind of its own.

Sy Montgomery

#8. Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.

Joss Whedon

#9. One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.

Will McDonough

#10. Make the earth a dwelling place. Cultivate the heart and mind. Practice benevolence. Stand by your word. Govern with equity. Serve skillfully. Act in a timely way, without contentiousness, free of blame.

Lao-Tzu

#11. Mortals building things the same in the hope that conformity will set them free.

Kate Griffin

#12. Some folk are dealt a bad hand. But you can't rely on another person's conscience to live the life you want to live. You make do with what you're given; you struggle on.

Eleanor Catton