Words and Images....of Note

On Writing:

"I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam."

                                                                                    --Annie Dillard, "Sight Into Insight"

"Don't say the old lady screamed.  Bring her on and let her scream."

                                                                            --Mark Twain

“Words, so innocent and powerless as they are, standing in a dictionary; how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to choose and combine them.”

                                                                    — Nathaniel Hawthorne

On....other things:

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

                                                                      --Edmund Burke

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works."

                                                        --Marc Chagall

"God is frightful.  God is great--you pick.  I choose this:  God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up as stars to guide us."

--Barbara Kingsolver (Small Wonders)

"Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt."

                                                     Shakespeare
                                                     Measure for Measure, I.iv.79-80

"If things go wrong, don't go with them."  --Roger Balson (American Statistician and Author)

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives every thing its value."

         --Thomas Paine from The American Crisis--Number 1                                                       

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.  Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil."

                                                    --John Ruskin

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

                              -- Henry Adams--from The Education of Henry Adams

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

                              --Albert Einstein

 

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."

                                    --T. S. Eliot,
                                    Little Gidding V,
                                    Four Quartets

"We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in themiddle and knows."

--Robert Frost,
"The Secret Sits"

"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides."

                                         --Margaret Thatcher

"Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative."

                                         --Mordecai Siegal