Shanessa Coburn Quotes

#1. Have you noticed the words which Old Testament people use when someone important calls them by name? They don't say "What?" or "Yes?" They answer with the curious sentence, "Here I am". So much is in that sentence: readiness to respond, a willing servitude, an offering of oneself to the other.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#2. He could do what all men wanted to, that is, fly

T.H. White

#3. You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.

Douglas Adams

#4. The Church is a family expecting guests.

Andy Stanley

#5. And part of him, a compact, dark lump of meanness buried deep in his chest, had been glad. Let her feel useless. Let her feel like a failure. Let her see that he could do things she never could.

Kiersten White

#6. What you look at hard seems to look at you.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#7. It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.

Stephen Covey

#8. The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.

Peter Greenaway

#9. Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend.

Elaine S. Dalton

#10. The only people that interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing.. but burn, burn, burn like roman candles across the night. Allen

Jack Kerouac

#11. Sell your soul and half your shoes for a glass of gin.

Catherynne M Valente

#12. You can't hope for a better result as a campaigner than to have the prime minister announce a major policy change within 48 hours of your documentary.

Heather Brooke