Van Autreve Quotes

#1. I am quite convinced now ... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my style - led to my producing Spot. Cartoons must be very simple and have as few words as possible, and so, too, must the 'Spot' books.

Eric Hill

#2. That such people could accomodate conflicting worldly labels... was a talent of postcolonial life, evidence of adaptation by people who have had many different categories foisted on them by outsiders.

Eliza Griswold

#3. Missing from such histories are the countless small actions of unknown people that led up to those great moments. When we understand this, we can see that the tiniest acts of protest in which we engage may become the invisible roots of social change.

Howard Zinn

#4. Through meditation we can channel outer energy to create inner calmness and peace.

Debasish Mridha

#5. I am yours," she whispered. The words cut like knives, barely out of her mouth before he stole them, sealing them with his own lips.

Kiersten White

#6. You and I are way to fabulous to be ordinary.

Josephine Angelini

#7. I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.

Gene Tierney

#8. Beware the autumn people

Ray Bradbury

#9. - I am eternal. I am the Eater of Worlds.

Stephen King

#10. Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.

Seth Godin

#11. Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage.

Leon L. Van Autreve

#12. Others quite new when covered with ice, all white, all throbbing, are like swans about to fly, but the earth has already caught them from below. They twist and tear themselves from the mud, only to be flattened out a little further on.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#13. I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

Mason Cooley

#14. No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

C.S. Lewis