Turfed Backyard Quotes

#1. Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#2. After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.

Brandi Chastain

#3. As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction.

Michael Dirda

#4. Before he bent his head, I knew what he was going to do. Touch his lips to mine. Oh, and I wanted him to ... I stilled, hardly daring to breathe. The old refrain of cant and shouldn't sank beneath the weight of new worlds like please and yes.

Ann Aguirre

#5. Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.

Beatrice Wood

#6. No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly ... and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Murasaki Shikibu

#7. To be is to be the value of a variable.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#8. There is something of yours that i would like to return to you ... He leaned across the distance between them and caught her mouth with his own.

Holly Black

#9. The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection between forgetfulness and sin, but there IS a connection: forgetfulness means unawareness, unconsciousness.

Rajneesh

#10. I've spent all the years since full of guilt and misery, even though I didn't remember it. I've let it run my thoughts, my plans, my whole life. But the experience doesn't own me. I own it. What I do with it is up to me, just like what Molly does with her death magic is up to her.

Faith Hunter

#11. Just now we happen to be living in a secular age. Our thought habits are those of the scientist, not those of the worshipper. We are more likely to explain than to adore. "It thundered," we exclaim, and go our earthly way.

A.W. Tozer

#12. I am the first to point out that I really am not kind to illustrators. By that, I mean I really don't give that much to work with.

James A. Moore

#13. While many conclusions are drawn ... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers ... an ongoing process of discovery.

John Paul Caponigro

#14. Friendship on the contrary is enjoyed in proportion to our desire: since it is a matter of the mind, with our souls being purified by practising it

Michel De Montaigne