Trantham Services Quotes

#1. I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.

Liu Xiaobo

#2. To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

Erskine Caldwell

#3. War is a monster ... War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows ... And otherwise normal people become monsters, too.

Patrick Ness

#4. I've got a hot shower and an even hotter bed only ten minutes from here."
"Hotter bed?"
"It's got a heater in it."
She narrowed her eyes. "It does not."
"Hand to heaven," he said.
She narrowed her eyes. "Does this 'heater' run on electricity?"
"Nope.

Jill Shalvis

#5. If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Noam Chomsky

#6. Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? JER23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

Anonymous

#7. Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

Carl Van Vechten

#8. My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.

Andrea Bocelli

#9. Wizard's Sixth Rule
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.

Terry Goodkind

#10. I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.

Anthony Marra

#11. The only thing I have ever really cared to be known as is a musician.

John Tesh

#12. But I don't think anybody with any self-respect would admit to being Goth

Rozz Williams

#13. Hell of a world we live in, huh? ( ... ) But it could be worse, huh?"
"That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect.

William Gibson

#14. He hath never failed thee yet.
Never will His love forget.
O fret not thyself nor let
Thy heart be troubled,
Neither let it be afraid.

Amy Carmichael

#15. I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

Maurice Sendak