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“To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.”
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“A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.”
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“My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.”
Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
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“The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.”
Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “The Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.
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“Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.”
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“Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.”
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“At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.”
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“Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.”
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“I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.”
Source : Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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“My drawings are the result of my sculpture.”
