I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.


St. Lucia

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're...
DANNY DEVITO
I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and ...
CHARLIE WORSHAM
I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN
When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I us...
DAN GILROY
I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling y...
SACHIN TENDULKAR
I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whet...
HARRY STYLES
I think it's important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top....
JASON MRAZ
If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that'...
BRUCE LIPTON
Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfe...
BEN QUAYLE
I think, for the first time, people are starting to say, 'That's Sterling K. Brown,' whi...
STERLING K. BROWN
I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it...
SPIKE JONZE
When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big ...
JUDY BLUME
I try not to read reviews. It's hard not to hear what the critics are saying, but as an actor, I...
REID SCOTT
The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a jo...
BILLY BRAGG
Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for...
JIM HARRISON
We're so immersed in ourselves at home, but when you're travelling, it's important to be...
SARAH ALEXANDER
I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to b...
EDDIE MARSAN
Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI
It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is t...
ROBERT COLLIER
I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself b...
JOHN BURNSIDE
It's hard to think it's important to try out as cheerleader when you're starring on Broa...
BONNIE BEDELIA
My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian i...
SHERMAN ALEXIE
Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON
I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surround...
LEONA LEWIS
I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there's an obligation to get it absolutely r...
RONALD FRAME
When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinkin...
MIRANDA JULY
Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-el...
RAY NAGIN
When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book....
LINDA SUE PARK
I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, w...
AARON RODGERS
I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an art...
OLIVIA D'ABO
I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be i...
CURTIS JACKSON
Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, yo...
TABITHA KING
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's...
NATALIE GOLDBERG
Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; th...
NAOMIE HARRIS
I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subcons...
MARIAN KEYES
I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
WALTER ISAACSON
When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you'...
TAYLOR KITSCH
Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I...
CAROL BARTZ
When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-con...
RAY BRADBURY
My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their t...
MEGHAN O'ROURKE
Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way...
MIKE HUCKABEE
But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - o...
DAMIEN HIRST
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality trai...
MADONNA CICCONE
I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decisi...
MICHAEL PHELPS
I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I ...
Q-TIP
You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at ...
CAMERON DIAZ
When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had mos...
KIM YOUNG-HA
I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and...
J. R. MARTINEZ
I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the ti...
ELLE FANNING
I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What...
WHOOPI GOLDBERG
It's important not to ditch your mates when you're in a relationship. Lots of girls do it, b...
RACHEL BILSON
It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks m...
JAMES GLEICK
The important thing is not to be too comfortable when you're writing. Noise in the street? That&...
E. L. DOCTOROW
I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It...
GUY RITCHIE
It's not an easy course. It's not designed to be. We're not here to get you in touch wit...
JAMES MATTIS
If at my funeral they're talking about my boxing stories, I'd be disappointed because this i...
MARK DE MORI
I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writ...
DAVE MATTHEWS
If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I'm not cross about the idea of baptism; I just think the idea that when a child is born it is i...
HOZIER
The writing process is more... it becomes a case of more like a diary for me. I mean, I write stuff ...
CHRISTINA MILIAN
At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wa...
SACHIN TENDULKAR
I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truth...
NAVEEN ANDREWS
Your consciousness is all there is. When you lose it, there is nothing there. Be conscious not subco...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three fee...
SCOTT PATTERSON
I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and...
ADAM SCHLESINGER
Just before my 16th birthday, Natalie Dormer said to me, 'As soon as you turn 16, you're goi...
SOPHIE TURNER
I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dia...
ZOE KAZAN
It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibil...
BECKY LYNCH
I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write any...
COREY TAYLOR
I'm very opinionated, and when you're put in a position where you're getting the storyli...
MATTHEW DAVIS
I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear ...
HARRIET WALTER
You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. Yo...
IRIS APFEL
I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prett...
ZOOEY DESCHANEL
Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a w...
RAF SIMONS
I always liked the idea in 'Potter' that you don't choose the wand, the wand chooses you...
SCOTT DERRICKSON
I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's...
CHANTAL KREVIAZUK
Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be sh...
ADRIANA LIMA
I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love....
JOHN CUSACK
The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is someth...
RANBIR KAPOOR
When I create a TV show, it's so that I can write it. I'm not an empire builder; my writing ...
AARON SORKIN
On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. I...
YUVRAJ SINGH
People ask me when I start one of these projects, what is your theme? I haven’t the faintest idea. ...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH
People ask me all the time, 'How can I become a successful entrepreneur?' And I have to be h...
MICHAEL DELL
After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, direc...
JOHN RATZENBERGER
I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work befor...
WARREN ELLIS
I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm ...
IAN RANKIN
I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have sel...
TOM PETTY
There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you'r...
SALLY SCHNEIDER
To free your mind from lies and deceit you have to open your mind to the possibilities of everything...
GARY F EVANS...
Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an act...
WILLIAM HURT
That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enj...
TAYLOR DAYNE
A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious an...
BILLY CAMPBELL
People read stuff over your shoulder when you're in public, and when you write the kind of stuff...
CHELSEA CAIN
When doing a series, I look for something that has an idea you can think about, something that I'...
DARREN STAR
People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Ma...
YUNA
As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a ...
TIM VINE
I don't just rely on my right hand when I'm in the ring. That's the least thing I think ...
DEONTAY WILDER
In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it...
KINA GRANNIS

More St. Lucia

I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.
ST. LUCIA
The first city I ever came to in the states was Des Moines. I was 12 and was in a boys' choir.
ST. LUCIA
I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain...
ST. LUCIA
St. Lucia in South Africa is this exotic place where you might go on vacation, and it evokes this no...
ST. LUCIA
It's easy when you're working together to let work things overtake your life, when all you&#...
ST. LUCIA
I was really into Radiohead and Live.
ST. LUCIA
I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.
ST. LUCIA
The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the r...
ST. LUCIA
I went through all these different phases. But it always felt like I was impersonating something, so...
ST. LUCIA
We've always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we're always on the road. The most ...
ST. LUCIA
He seems more relaxed, happier and at ease with himself. I think that's an important part of the dev...
DON LUCIA
When he bought this place, we came in, and gas was leaking all over the place.
JERRY LUCIA
He does crazy things when he's riding. He'll reach down and pick something up or tip the saddle down...
TOM LUCIA
People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forcewe have failed. We are stuck in the medie...
LUCIA ANNUNZIATA
People like me who believe the left can be a moderate force—we have...
LUCIA ANNUNZIATA
All the newspapers have their own conflict of interest because they are protected by the businessmen...
LUCIA ANNUNZIATA
It's been a long time since a visit to America stopped being an infallible formula for strengthening...
LUCIA ANNUNZIATA
Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it,...
LUCIA CAPOCCHIONE
Sally wasn't crying about their dead mother or her cancer. She was crying because her husband, Alfon...
LUCIA BERLIN
He'll also get some time on the blue line.
DON LUCIA
He says he feels better today than he did at any time last year. So we should be real deep up front.
DON LUCIA
Our seniors are crushed, and it's always hard to go in the locker room after that last game. But I t...
DON LUCIA
I don't know if it was nerves or what, but we were a little tentative at first. We had a lot of youn...
DON LUCIA
The bottom line is Craig went out on his terms and he should do so with his head held high. It's bet...
DON LUCIA
I'm just surprised at the timing a little bit. The bottom line is, I just hope the people of St. Clo...
DON LUCIA
It's going to be a big boost for Boston University. They had a lot of tradition, but let's face it: ...
DON LUCIA
If you came into our dressing room and watched him, you would think he's a fifth-line player, not on...
DON LUCIA
When he has the puck, he doesn't slow down. It's like in football, when they talk about 40 (yard) sp...
DON LUCIA
He has faced a mountain of pressure. And he's handled that amazingly well. But if you ask him, he wi...
DON LUCIA
Sedih juga ketika kita baru bisa bersyukur hanya saat memikirkan orang yang lebih menderita dari kit...
LUCIA PRIANDARINI
I feel the public should be informed continuously of what's going on in Harrisburg, what issues are ...
GERALD LUCIA
I feel that I've always wanted to move up from mayor to the next level, the state.
GERALD LUCIA
I feel that, with my experience there, knowing how it is to raise funds for fire departments so they...
GERALD LUCIA
Us. All regrets, left them in the sea, smiling at life as if it was a beautiful dream, because if on...
LUCIA OHANIAN
Everywhere risk and defiance weave through the most mundane daily affairs.
LUCIA BERLIN
Like everyone else I need all the help I can get.
LUCIA SHOOK
People want color not necessarily the heart shape.
LUCIA SHOOK
Believe it or not they know what they want. A guy bought a beautiful diamond cross for his wife for ...
LUCIA SHOOK
That government doesn't do any good, just harm. Look at them, putting bombs here, putting bombs ther...
LUCIA ROJA
We have got to find him. ...He didn't have any shoes on. It was cold out last night.
LUCIA JACKSON
I believe he was a hero and he did try to apprehend the shooter, and I understand that he probably d...
LUCIA JACKSON
These people have been so good, I love them and God bless them and protect them.
LUCIA JACKSON
It's a positive thing because Howard is all about healthy, friendly competition, and it's a good way...
LUCIA HASSELL
I am very pleased because I know they deserved it. They've worked very hard. They were up to 3 am so...
LUCIA HASSELL
Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it,...
LUCIA CAPOCCHIONE
The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME
They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROME
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROME
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in t...
ST. JEROME
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROME
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME
Haste is of the Devil.
ST. JEROME
Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse mee...
ST. VINCENT
The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had peo...
ST. VINCENT
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
ST. SIMON
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
ST. JEROME
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
ST AUGUSTINE
Prayer is a groan.
ST. JEROME
Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
ST. BERNARD
Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
ST. BERNARD
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy re...
ST. BASIL
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
ST. EVERMOND
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
ST. BASIL
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
ST. BERNARD
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is...
ST. BERNARD
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROME
A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers l...
ST. BASIL
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
ST. BERNARD
Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of nec...
ST. BASIL
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
ST. BERNARD
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROME
Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet
ST. AUGUSTINE
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROME
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
ST. AUGUSTINE
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for ...
ST. BASIL
God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his p...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ST. JEROME
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive ...
ST. JEROME
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME
In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously ...
ST. VINCENT
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
ST. JEROME
I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me o...
ST. JEROME
I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everyt...
ST. VINCENT
I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet f...
ST. JEROME
A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almos...
ST. VINCENT
My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the pr...
ST. JEROME
Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something...
ST. VINCENT
Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bis...
ST. AUGUSTINE
If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: fo...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment.
ST. AUGUSTINE
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 One can say: "I will, but my body does not ob...
ST. AUGUSTINE
God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should s...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: ...
ST. AUGUSTINE
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastin...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 The truth is neither mi...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 But when does flesh receive the bread which He ...
ST. AUGUSTINE
What is Christ's joy in us, but that He deigns to rejoice on our account? And what is our Joy, which...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Picture God as saying to you, "My son, why is it that day by day you rise, and pray, and genuflect, ...
ST. AUGUSTINE
My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan go...
ST. VINCENT
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
ST. JEROME
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
BERNARD ST.
I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking a...
ST. VINCENT
Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completel...
ST. VINCENT
Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues grat...
ST. JEROME
I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, &...
ST. VINCENT
Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a m...
ST. BASIL
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
ST. JEROME
And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, rig...
ST. VINCENT
If you want to build a ship
don’t herd people together to collect wood
and don’t assig...
ST. EXUPERY
No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little
ST. BASIL
I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
ST. VINCENT
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is...
BERNARD, ST.
Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
BERNARD, ST.
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
BERNARD, ST.
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD, ST.
Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
BERNARD, ST.
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
BERNARD, ST.
Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never a...
BERNARD, ST.
I just believe that everybody has concerns and is interested in the educational process,
ST. AMBROSE
Where Peter is, there must be the Church
ST. AMBROSE
There is no time of life past learning something.
ST. AMBROSE
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD ST.
I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.
ST. VINCENT
Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin. All hope consists in confes...
ST. ISADORE
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
ST. JEROME
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
ST. AUGUSTINE
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
ST. AUGUSTINE
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long course...
ST. AUGUSTINE
At the resurrection the substance of our bodies, however disintegrated, will be united. We must not ...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end o...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, wit...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 What art Thou then, my God? What, but the Lor...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 It is not that we keep His commandments f...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 None can become fit for the future life, who h...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 We need not despair of any man, s...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Whoever has Christ in his heart, so that no earthly or temporal things -- not even those that are le...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Ye have enemies; for who can live on this earth...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Other sins find their ...
ST. AUGUSTINE
When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not becau...
ST. AUGUSTINE
But when does flesh receive the bread which He calls His flesh? The faithful know and receive the Bo...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
ST. JEROME
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROME
Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.
ST. JEROME
Quick enough, if good enough.
ST. JEROME
Never look a gift horse in the mouth!
ST. JEROME
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting
ST. JEROME
Hypocrite reader - my fellow - my brother!
ST. JEROME
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
ST. JEROME
Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.
ST. BASIL
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
BERNARD ST.
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
ST. AUGUSTINE
And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departe...
ST AUGUSTINE
The Devil tempts that he may ruin and destroy; God tests that He may crown.
ST. AMBROSE
Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apos...
ST. CYPRIAN
Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot...
ST. BONAVENTURE
Nothing can work me damage except myself.
ST. BERNARD
Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 A man's personality actuates and qui...
ST. ATHANASIUS
Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Human and human-minded as men were, t...
ST. ATHANASIUS
Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Both from the confession of the evil...
ST. ATHANASIUS
Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
ST. ATHANASIUS
Feast of Philip & James, Apostles What was God to do in the face of the dehumanizing of mankind -...
ST. ATHANASIUS
Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Those blessed ones of ...
ST. ANSELM
Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 O Lord our God, grant u...
ST. ANSELM
Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397 To the good man to die is gain. The foolish fea...
ST. AMBROSE
Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397 It is a great mystery of divine love, that not ev...
ST. AMBROSE
Jesus is our mouth, through which we speak to the Father; He is our eye, through which we see the Fa...
ST. AMBROSE
Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to s...
ST. AMBROSE
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
ST. AMBROSE
Feast of Joseph of Nazareth O Lord our God, Who has called us to serve You, In the midst of the...
ST. ALCUIN
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
ST AUGUSTINE
Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Continuing a short series on prayer: T...
ST. TERESA
Continuing a short series on the Bible: A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scr...
ST. JEROME
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
ST. EVERMOND
Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmo...
ST. CYPRIAN
Just suppose members of our churches were voted on, like the members of certain civic clubs. Suppose...
ST. CYPRIAN
One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always co...
ST. VINCENT
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROME
It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
ST. JEROME
I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a...
ST. VINCENT
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive...
ST. BASIL
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
OLIVER ST. JOHN
If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
OLIVER ST. JOHN
And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time...
LARA ST. JOHN
Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to...
LARA ST. JOHN
Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
LARA ST. JOHN
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing e...
LARA ST. JOHN