There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again. —Bill Bryson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning. —Paulette Bates Alden More about this quote Tags: life home place mourning leaving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood — and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Tags: life choices choosing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching. —Willa Cather More about this quote Tags: love hate intimacy closeness small towns Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Your next-door neighbor . . . is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a pianola; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: perception neighbors Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man made the city, God made the country, but the devil made the small town. —The Reverend Vernon G. McGee More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. —Vincent Van Gogh More about this quote Tags: love people art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art is spirituality in drag. —Jennifer Yane More about this quote Tags: spirituality art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. —Willa Cather More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Tags: heart work heartbreak Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. —Garth Henrichs More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in. —Chinese saying More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The writer does not learn to write so that he can "write," but because without the necessary tools he cannot dig his way out of prison. —Alan Swallow More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do. —Ernest Hemingway More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Envy is a con man, a tugger at your sleeve, a knocker at your door. Let me in for just a moment, it says, for just one moment of your time. . . . The antidote to envy is one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself. It drives the spooks away. —Bonita Freedman More about this quote Tags: doing work thinking envy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email