"I definitely write from a need to try, in my own two hours, to right a wrong. My little play is inconsequential in terms of whether or not we have health care, but it may affect the way people who see the play think about the issue."

-- Lisa Loomer

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes

“IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.”
“I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?”

Source : Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.228, Penguin
“These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.”
“Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.”
“Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on.”
“But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.”
“It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.”
“Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.”

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