Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

John Dyer

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

Terry Brooks

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.

April Winchell

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

Chinua Achebe

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Johann von Goethe

Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.

Cassandra Clare

Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.

Alexander Pope

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

Alan Shepard

Country music has always sort of been country music.

Miranda Lambert

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

Paul Stanley

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Khalil Gibran

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilmer