"The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil."

-- Nikolai Gogol

#Soil Quotes #May Quotes #Lord Quotes

“My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.”

Source : "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.
“Even my bio on Instagram is like, 'That girl that fell at the Olympics.' Just as a joke. Because that's how people come up to me and that's what they say. That's how they remember me.”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com
“I wanted to know what it was like to be a drug addict, and have an eating disorder, and have a loved one die, and fall in love. I saw my friends going through these things, I saw the world going through these things, and I needed to understand them. I needed to make sense of them. Books didnâ€™t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books, and it was books that showed me there is light at the end of the tunnel.”
“A writer writes what other people only think.”

Source : Sol Stein (2014). “How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them”, p.87, St. Martin's Press
“I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.”
“Necessity is the author of change.”

Source : Tim Hansel (1995). “Keep on Dancin': Daily Readings to Celebrate Life”, Chariot Family Pub
“The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.”
“Prayer is the key to success. Not to pray is to fail. To pray aright is never to fail.”

Source : A.C. Dixon (2016). “Through Night to Morning”, p.70, Solid Christian Books

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