Ken Spillman quotes

When you're being told that you're good at something, you start to believe them and then you forget about your hopes and dreams.
-- Ken Spillman

#Dream #Believe #Forget

My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.
-- Ken Spillman

#Jobs #Real #Writing

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.
-- Ken Spillman

#Children #Imagination #Way

I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil. I pray for such a like-minded mate, who will be ever for me like harmony to music, virtue to the soul, prosperity to the state, and forethought to the universe.

It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It’s in our hearts.

I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.

You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.