The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female) should be like Mary who, when the angel told her that she was to bear the Messiah, was obedient to the command. ...I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me." And the artist either says, "My soul doth magnify the Lord," and willingly becomes the bearer of teh work, or refuses; but the obedient response is not necessarily a conscious one, and not everyone has the humble, courageous obedience of Mary. As for Mary, she was little more than a child when the angel came to her; she had not lost her child's creative acceptance of the realities moving on the other side of the everyday world. We lose our ability to see angels as we grow older, and that is a tragic loss.
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 Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t... THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor... CARRIE RYAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO Another year is ending, but something is pending ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world. PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS
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 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 I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I wa... 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