Showplace Quotes

#1. I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that's how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat literature. [from "Mingus at the Showplace"]

William Matthews

#2. Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.

Alison Lurie

#3. If iT was Possible To Go The Way our Mind think and our Eyes Sometimes See, Life Will give more Pleasure to Us.

Jan Jansen

#4. Worship is about encounter-coming into God's presence

Jack W. Hayford

#5. What does it mean to delight in the Lord? Delighting in the Lord is simply having a heart motivated by the Lord. When our heart is cluttered with desires that compete with God, then our hearts is not one with God. When we delight in Him everything we do is for Him, and is encouraged by Him

Heather Bixler

#6. It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.

Danielle Steel

#7. Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.

Magda Gerber

#8. What I find about wedding plans is that everyone wants to talk about when I don't. As soon as I do feel like talking about my wedding plans, their eyes glaze over and I can see them wishing they were dead

Suzanne Finnamore

#9. Well, one of the problems of working on a story with a character that sacred in the religions of the world or in a picture about that person, is that you have to forget about that and play it as real as you can because you can't look at yourself and judge yourself.

Rod Steiger

#10. Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand thoughts a day.

Marci Shimoff

#11. One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

Kin Hubbard

#12. He saw that they were all working together at the first step of the species' break from the home world, and he understood that if the first step were taken successfully, with balance, they could run from star to star all across the night.

Kim Stanley Robinson