"Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our feet."

-- Hilda Doolittle

#Book Quotes #Feet Quotes #Ashes Quotes

“So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.”
“Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is a powerful antidote to the overly simplified proposals too often offered as solutions to contemporary problems at multiple scales.”
“That’s me, man – I’m a lover not a fighter.”

Source : "Who Is Wayne Wonder?". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org.
“I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.”
“My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.”
“No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.”
“Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.”

Source : Ann Beattie (2010). “Walks With Men: Fiction”, p.40, Simon and Schuster
“All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends.”

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