Sir John Templeton Quotes

#1. Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#2. We're all tools in somebody's kit. But that doesn't mean we can't make tools out o other people. Or figure our interesting things to use ourselves for.

Orson Scott Card

#3. Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to pull you forward, even as you go kicking and screaming. (p.18)

Laraine Herring

#4. No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.

Edgar Friedenberg

#5. It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

Thomas Merton

#6. Reach isn't describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it's simultaneous.

Jennifer Egan

#7. Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

Langston Hughes

#8. It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.

John Astin

#9. Kugel wondered if in these days of the Internet you would even need a Miep Gies anymore, if you could make it through a genocide these days with just a smartphone and a credit card, and he was hopeful that in the event of another Holocaust, he would have some sort of broadband Internet access.

Shalom Auslander

#10. It had a sort of a head on it, like a mushroom, and its color was reddish purple. It looked blunt and stupid, compared, say, to fingers and toes with their intelligent expressiveness, or even to an elbow or a knee.

Alice Munro

#11. In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do," but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn.

Bill Buford

#12. I love to listen to Howard Stern with the guy who drives me.

Mark Feuerstein

#13. It's really important to be disruptive and do things that actually are kind of a little scary and bold.

Christopher Bailey

#14. Because life is short and it's better when you speak your heart.

Mimi Strong