I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel ...
PAUL 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 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 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 The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pac...
PAUL ENGLE I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,&...
PAUL ENGLE It's a sight I plan to remember, this spontaneous unity when faced with disaster.
MARGARITA 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 Seventh grade. Eleven years old. A bookworm-misfit with long black braids, childish white socks, poi...
MARGARITA 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 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 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 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 Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmen...
ROBERT F. ENGLE If the Chinese economy can be opened so that currencies are convertible, Chinese tourists can take m...
ROBERT F. ENGLE My mother says that my father truly enjoyed having a son. My two-years-younger twin sisters felt tha...
ROBERT F. ENGLE When I am skating, economics is far away. I always return refreshed and ready to carry on.
ROBERT F. ENGLE I was convinced that the trading frequency measured a fundamental heartbeat of financial markets. Cl...
ROBERT F. ENGLE There are some risks we choose to take because the benefits from taking them exceed the possible cos...
ROBERT F. 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 Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other hars...
MADELINE 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 My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder...
PAUL DANO We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they ...
PAUL TILLICH Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
PAUL BRYANT Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to peop...
PAUL DIRAC I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They ...
PAUL DIRAC It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and...
PAUL DIRAC I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an econo...
PAUL DIRAC In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
PAUL DIRAC Civilisation was built around wheat, around people settling down and not being nomadic. Baking is on...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD As an opinion manager, a campaign consultant, fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixi...
PAUL MANAFORT What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.
PAUL SAMUELSON No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York ...
CHRIS PAUL The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL If my son is happy, then I am happy.
CHRIS PAUL A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
PAUL VALERY Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending...
RAND PAUL I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really belie...
RAND PAUL Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
RAND PAUL People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twist...
RAND PAUL I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health i...
RAND PAUL Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don...
RAND PAUL You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
RAND PAUL As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
RAND PAUL Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often ...
RAND PAUL How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Con...
RAND PAUL We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-ric...
RAND PAUL The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to b...
RAND PAUL The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese American...
RAND PAUL The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administer...
RAND PAUL If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
RAND PAUL I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism...
RAND PAUL Naples is curiously chaotic and, if I'm honest, a bit dilapidated. It certainly has a 'lived...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-bui...
RON PAUL There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all t...
RON PAUL You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are a...
RON PAUL The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the worl...
RON PAUL Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
RON PAUL All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individ...
RON PAUL When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three cho...
RON PAUL Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
RON PAUL You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
RON PAUL Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we do...
RON PAUL What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a ...
RON PAUL Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up t...
RON PAUL 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
RON PAUL If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not s...
RON PAUL When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
RON PAUL The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our lib...
RON PAUL There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator...
RON PAUL