Shaper Cutters Quotes

#1. In 1970, at the age of 14, I entered a short story contest offering a grand prize of one dollar. I won. This was my first foray into writing fiction. I loved reading and thought that it shouldn't be so hard to write a story.

David Bergen

#2. people can't live without a story, without a role to play.

Donald Miller

#3. Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

Chuck Close

#4. I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.

Brian McKnight

#5. It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

Max Weber

#6. Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.

Tori Amos

#7. No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: this is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.

Paul Theroux

#8. Nothing personal; I just don't have people over.

Alvin Ailey

#9. 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself.

Bertrand Russell

#10. Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#11. It was refreshing to flirt with a woman who didn't think it meant she had to fall on his dick with a missile-seeking vagina.

Olivia Cunning

#12. Ben Scott couldn't be afraid of the supernatural. He didn't believe in the supernatural. Ben Scott was firmly convinced that he didn't believe in anything,

Jan-Andrew Henderson

#13. I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills ... Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St. loin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where.

George Washington

#14. It's one thing to be the greatest; it's another thing to be necessary. The best are the most necessary: those who take less than they give and love more than they hate.

Mos Def