I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be... This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages...the delayed adolescent, the childish adult, but that they are in me to be drawn on; to forget is a form of suicide... Far too many people misunderstand what *putting away childish things* means, and think that forgetting what it is like to think and feel and touch and smell and taste and see and hear like a three-year-old or a thirteen-year-old or a twenty-three-year-old means being grownup. When I'm with these people I, like the kids, feel that if this is what it means to be a grown-up, then I don't ever want to be one. Instead of which, if I can retain a child's awareness and joy, and *be* fifty-one, then I will really learn what it means to be grownup.
Madeleine L'Engle
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty... MITCH ALBOM Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be ... C.S. LEWIS I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi... C. JOYBELL C. Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be ad... C.S. LEWIS 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT DEAR MISS MANNERS: I a tired of being treated like a child. My father says it's because I am a ... JUDITH MARTIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS I don’t know if I will have the time to write any more letters, because I might be too busy trying... STEPHEN CHBOSKY What does it mean when I say that 'I don't see race?' It means that because I learned to see no diff... MICHI TROTA How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS When I say 'I won't hurt you', it's a promise, which can and will be kept but it does not come from ... EVA SCHUETTE I think your 20s are the hardest part of life. I mean, everyone goes on about how hard it is to be a... NIGEL COLE Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not me... CAMERON DIAZ The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD Just because I liked something at one point in time doesn’t mean I’ll always like it, or that I ... JAROD KINTZ In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two. . . . That's wh... BILLIE JEAN KING There is a thought among some brands of theology that souls are waiting up in heaven to be born. Now... CHARLES M. SCHULZ When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI I think, therefore I am? No, I simply am. I am. I am. I am. I will still be if I didn... KAMAND KOJOURI How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'm... WILLIAM GOLDING I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own child... DANIEL PINKWATER If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a ... ANONYMOUS I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL I see ... the faces of these young people, and I see their hearts and that they really do want chang... ANITA HILL I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equal... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time ... DIANE SETTERFIELD Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still ... KOBE BRYANT If I really feel that I justify being in the side and I am playing and scoring for Celtic I will say... JOHN HARTSON That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to... STORY MUSGRAVE Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I feel like I am a real artist and I want to be able to feel what I am singing about. So when I sing... JOJO Shaq pe hai yaqeen unko, Yaqeen pe hai shaq Mujhy..... .....Kis ka jhoot jhoot hai, K... VISHAL BHARADWAJ - HAIDER FILM I believe that I have not been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in circ... HARUKI MURAKAMI To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... DEBASISH MRIDHA When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five ... ETTA JAMES I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL Be still, and know that I am God'. We must not interpret that 'Be still' in a sentimental manner. So... D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT When I was a small boy I was always being told by others, especially grown ups, to behave, to be goo... SIDNEY MADWED Apparently this is my year to be the first. I was just shocked when they told me. I just go about th... ANNA SIMPSON If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... ANTHONY LICCIONE I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forev... KATHY ACKER It doesn't matter when, how old am I and how. When the first robot is build and it can be like a hum... DEYTH BANGER I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, o... JIM MORRISON She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I came to Southbury because I wanted to live a more simple life. When I was a child, I saw lots of m... POLLY BERGEN She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I will never not be poor, so what does it matter if I don't pay a thing and a half this week instead... LINDA TIRADO I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to... CHRIS CUOMO I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once t... SOPHIE THOMPSON What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend sugges... RALPH WALDO EMERSON To be, or not to be: what a question! E.A. BUCCHIANERI I understood why films were made, and if they made a lot of money, they were successful. All of thes... HENRY THOMAS My expectation will be -- has been every year -- it will always be to get into the NCAA tournament, ... CHERYL BURNETT What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell ... PHILIP PULLMAN It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereb... R.C. SPROUL Single Record of the Year and New Vocalist were such a blessing to see, but when I saw that I was up... THOMAS RHETT You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. “I had to come back early.” Sh... LISA KLEYPAS This injury is dictating the end of my career, whether that's this year, next year or whatever, ... ... STEVE YZERMAN When we lose certain people, or when we are dispossessed from a place, or a community, we may simply... JUDITH BUTLER It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I ... MINDY KALING I have always been a lone wolf and in the real sense of the word (people say it all the time but it'... C. JOYBELL C. I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget... CASSANDRA CLARE The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR The truth is I can't be with you like this. I mean, I know I said that I could, but I can't. I just ... KERI RUSSELL
More Madeleine L'Engle
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complicat... MADELEINE L'ENGLE You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown... MADELEINE L'ENGLE A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding un... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Some things have to be believed to be seen. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to man... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind. MADELEINE L'ENGLE I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, bu... MADELEINE L'ENGLE A great ring of pure & endless light Dazzles the darkness in my heart And breaks apart... MADELEINE L'ENGLE If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of fre... MADELEINE L'ENGLE In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain. MADELEINE L'ENGLE A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created,... MADELEINE L'ENGLE In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not... MADELEINE L'ENGLE We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist. MADELEINE L'ENGLE A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and com... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable.... MADELEINE L'ENGLE I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three t... MADELEINE L'ENGLE No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt t... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light. MADELEINE L'ENGLE But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, who... MADELEINE L'ENGLE I love, therefore I am vulnerable. MADELEINE L'ENGLE We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than w... MADELEINE L'ENGLE I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always... MADELEINE L'ENGLE People are more than just the way they look. MADELEINE L'ENGLE It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every... MADELEINE L'ENGLE We all tend to make zealous judgments and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. If we feel th... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition. MADELEINE L'ENGLE The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE I do not know everything; still many things I understand. MADELEINE L'ENGLE We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks. MADELEINE L'ENGLE The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. MADELEINE L'ENGLE We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we... MADELEINE L'ENGLE I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg. I Name you Calvin. I Name you Mr. Jenkins. I Nam... MADELEINE L'ENGLE We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set in... MADELEINE L'ENGLE I didn't mean to tell you," Mrs. Whatsit faltered. "I didn't mean ever to let you know. But oh, my d... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are... MADELEINE L'ENGLE We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civili... MADELEINE L'ENGLE the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let g... MADELEINE L'ENGLE The peculiar idea that bigger is better has been around for at least as long as I have, and it's alw... MADELEINE L'ENGLE God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent. MADELEINE L'ENGLE One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to h... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art... MADELEINE L'ENGLE There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops o... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm gro... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again. MADELEINE L'ENGLE An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate muc... MADELEINE L'ENGLE A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. MADELEINE L'ENGLE In my dreams, I never have an age. MADELEINE L'ENGLE It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fa... MADELEINE L'ENGLE You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future. MADELEINE L'ENGLE The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" MADELEINE L'ENGLE Think of the person you love the most in the world. Do you really see them visually? Or don't you se... MADELEINE L'ENGLE For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a cr... MADELEINE L'ENGLE If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reas... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Stories are like children. They grow in their own way. MADELEINE L'ENGLE The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're a... MADELEINE L'ENGLE It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won... MADELEINE L'ENGLE The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only de... MADELEINE L'ENGLE When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee! MADELEINE L'ENGLE Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be fre... MADELEINE L'ENGLE You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Wha... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I... MADELEINE L'ENGLE when I’m mad I don’t have room to be scared. MADELEINE L'ENGLE There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something... MADELEINE L'ENGLE You see, though we travel together, we travel alone. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Experiment is the mother of knowledge. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Believing takes practice. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that doe... MADELEINE L'ENGLE At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brig... MADELEINE L'ENGLE A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This cer... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other hars... MADELINE L'ENGLE I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel ... PAUL ENGLE It's a sight I plan to remember, this spontaneous unity when faced with disaster. MARGARITA ENGLE Our small ears never had such a workout as on the Fourth of July, hearing not only our own bursting ... PAUL ENGLE Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the pa... PAUL ENGLE Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tou... PAUL ENGLE I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Colum... PAUL ENGLE The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was set... PAUL ENGLE Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a l... PAUL ENGLE I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills arou... PAUL ENGLE Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But th... PAUL ENGLE A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the origi... PAUL ENGLE Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; ... PAUL ENGLE Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20... PAUL ENGLE We just wanted to say thank you very much. Above all else, we had so much fun. I'm glad (so many peo... BRITTANY ENGLE I know going into the locker room I was so frustrated. I struggled shooting against Walpole and I co... BRITTANY ENGLE This is our last chance. There's a sense of urgency. BRITTANY ENGLE Our chemistry is definitely the key. It seems we're on the same page. We pass well because we've pla... BRITTANY ENGLE But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never fo... PAUL ENGLE All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfwa... PAUL ENGLE The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of... PAUL ENGLE Seventh grade. Eleven years old. A bookworm-misfit with long black braids, childish white socks, poi... MARGARITA ENGLE Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid. PAUL ENGLE Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded ... PAUL ENGLE Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look a... PAUL ENGLE I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys. PAUL ENGLE You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug... PAUL ENGLE For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes a... PAUL ENGLE It?s kind of sad, but it is time to close the store. It?s very sad for both of us because it?s been ... ALICE ENGLE Many jurisdictions still do not prosecute these cases without medical evidence. The evidence is not ... BEVERLY ENGLE The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pac... PAUL ENGLE It amazes me all the people with different expertise, what it takes to make things happen. BEVERLY ENGLE The minute people walk in the door, it's amazing to watch the expression on their faces. They're put... BEVERLY ENGLE The rate at which this technology has been adopted is remarkable, the fastest I have ever seen in th... BARRY ENGLE I have never seen an automotive technology with that fast an adoption rate. BARRY ENGLE Everyone talks about alternative fuels, but we're doing it. BARRY ENGLE Everything from roofs to hurricane panels and hurricane shutters and windows to generators and scree... TODD ENGLE The wind actually caused the vehicle to twist and I lost it. I turned around and ended up in the dit... MIKE ENGLE I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,&... PAUL ENGLE Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child. LOU ENGLE We knew we were going to have to play well to win. At our drawing, I thought about going in the uppe... TODD ENGLE It was very big to get that win and something we kind of played off. I felt no matter what happened ... TODD ENGLE I think this is a team that we match up with pretty well when it comes to height. I think Abby (Nola... TODD ENGLE The whole world's safety depends on the words of two men who are enemies. MARGARITA ENGLE If you fumble the ball on the 15-yard line (sic), the other team's going to score. It's just that si... PAT ENGLE You can't give up 28 points in the first five minutes (sic). Ultimately with a lot of teams, speed i... PAT ENGLE Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe. MARGARITA ENGLE I would spend entire days there as a kid. GUS ENGLE Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. PAUL ENGLE Is there any way that two people from faraway places can ever really understand each other's daydrem... MARGARITA ENGLE We've had killer courses the last couple of weeks; I thought it was kind of nice when I walked it. MARGIE ENGLE He's got a lot of scope and he's got a lot of heart. MARGIE ENGLE At the steamy train station in New Orleans, horrifying signs above drinking fountains MARGARITA ENGLE That I can learn to trust You, And every way to love You; Strip away all that remains, F... JOEL ENGLE Slavery all day, and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom! MARGARITA ENGLE I can't understand why dark northern soldiers and light ones are seperated into di... MARGARITA ENGLE Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. LOUIS L'AMOUR Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. LOUIS L'AMOUR I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifet... LOUIS L'AMOUR The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture. LOUIS L'AMOUR The terms we use for what is considered supernatural are woefully inadequate. Beyond such terms as g... LOUIS L'AMOUR What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've nev... JOHN L'HEUREUX When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is. LOUIS L'AMOUR For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biograph... LOUIS L'AMOUR Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in... LOUIS L'AMOUR Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area t... LOUIS L'AMOUR I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from h... LOUIS L'AMOUR Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy. LOUIS L'AMOUR A lady should be allowed to choose her comp'ny, an' should be treated like a lady until she shows sh... LOUIS L'AMOUR There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning. LOUIS L'AMOUR The mind is a basket . . . if you put nothing in, you get nothing out. LOUIS L'AMOUR Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about t... LOUIS L'AMOUR A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind. LOUIS L'AMOUR Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king. LOUIS L'AMOUR Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?" "Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticip... LOUIS L'AMOUR Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on LOUIS L'AMOUR Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves. LOUIS L'AMOUR To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd. LOUIS L'AMOUR All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a... LOUIS L'AMOUR Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what ... LOUIS L'AMOUR You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That’s what the old woman told me, an... L'PONI BALDWIN He taunted me, "Pony boy, pony boy," because I liked ponies. Pony boy. He always came to vent his an... L'PONI BALDWIN I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her. -Nick Plato (from the story Plato... L'PONI BALDWIN He couldn't take his eye off that dragon There was something odd about the swaying of his tail<... L'PONI BALDWIN When he removed his robes, you could see the hundreds of scars and bruises that shamelessly decorate... L'PONI BALDWIN La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v... PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what ... MADELEINE ALBRIGHT I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of pe... MADELEINE PEYROUX Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing. MADELEINE PEYROUX I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played th... MADELEINE PEYROUX I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become ... MADELEINE PEYROUX Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their ar... MADELEINE PEYROUX I love playing to people and seeing them react. MADELEINE PEYROUX I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But i... MADELEINE PEYROUX My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to th... MADELEINE PEYROUX Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff. MADELEINE PEYROUX My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel. MADELEINE PEYROUX Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful th... MADELEINE PEYROUX I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating. MADELEINE PEYROUX I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary j... MADELEINE PEYROUX I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk ... MADELEINE PEYROUX You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of ... MADELEINE PEYROUX No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, a... MADELEINE PEYROUX It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status. MADELEINE PEYROUX A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, w... MADELEINE L'ENGLE With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, qu... MADELEINE L'ENGLE That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance... MADELEINE L'ENGLE You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown... MADELEINE L'ENGLE It is the ability to choose which makes us human. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. MADELEINE L'ENGLE In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well,... MADELEINE L'ENGLE