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

On....well on all:

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

                                                                      --Edmund Burke

"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)

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

                                                        --Marc Chagall

"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

"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
                                                  

"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
 

"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