Verlyn Klinkenborg Quotes

#1. When I say the grace of wildness, what I mean is its autonomy, its self-possession, the fact that it has nothing to do with us. The grace is in the separation, the distance, the sense of a self-sustaining way of life.

Verlyn Klinkenborg

#2. A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop ... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth

Verlyn Klinkenborg

#3. It's just past eight and I'm feeling young and reckless. The ribbon on my wrist says "Do not open before Christmas." Only liars, but we're the best. Only good for the latest trends. Only good cuz you can have almost famous friends, besides we've got such good fashion sense.

Fall Out Boy

#4. I don't want to sound too cocky. But I consider myself superwoman.

Ciara

#5. Football, like life, is about change.

Hank Stram

#6. Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is

Agatha Christie

#7. (Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.

Verlyn Klinkenborg

#8. I think love and obsession are almost one and the same thing at some times. Because the person you end up falling in love with, there is an element of obsession in the early days - it's all you can think about.

Ladyhawke

#9. Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

Verlyn Klinkenborg

#10. Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.

Verlyn Klinkenborg

#11. I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#12. Research, in nature's laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.

Verlyn Klinkenborg

#13. Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

Lesley Garrett

#14. With luck, you were read aloud to as a child.

Verlyn Klinkenborg

#15. Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it.

Verlyn Klinkenborg

#16. Yaicha runs.
He sits down, tired,
and says to mom,
"I'm sorry you had to see that."
Inevitable that he does it.
But he doesn't really want
a witness.

Thalia Chaltas

#17. The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

Verlyn Klinkenborg