"The sun rose yellow as a lemon.The sky was round and blue.The birds looped clear water songs in the air.Will and Jim leaned from their windows.Nothing had changed.Except the look in Jim's eyes.Last night. . . said Will. Did or didn't it happen?"

-- Ray Bradbury

#Song Quotes #Eye Quotes #Night Quotes

“It does no one any good to say their novel sucks if you don't have an idea how to make it better, how to approach it from different angles and make it work. It's obviously a subjective process, right? But the thing about subjectivity, at least in the classroom, is that you're banking on your professor's subjectivity to be both personal and professional - that he or she has some sense about the world outside the workshop.”
“You want to learn about what's already in their heads. You want to avoid putting things there.”
“In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.”

Source : James K. A. Smith (2009). “Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation”, p.25, Baker Academic
“And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.”
“There's a pardon for every sinner on the topside of the earth, but you have to call for it by faith before it becomes yours. In other words, you have to trust Christ as your Savior.”
“As Minister of Foreign Affairs. I will work on deepening Haiti's links with its traditional partners from the North and the South, while exploring all the opportunities for economic, cultural, scientific and technological cooperation that may benefit my country.”

Source : "New Haitian minister of foreign affairs delivers first official speech". Laurent Lamothe's first official speech at his installation ceremony in Bois-Verna, Haiti, www.dominicavibes.dm. October 31, 2011.
“I wish I knew how to quit you.”

Source : Annie Proulx (2005). “Brokeback Mountain”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
“Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.”

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