quotes about Scribbles

“It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.”

“Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record”

“(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,” Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic.”

“My dad played in different clubs and open mic nights. But he mostly walked dogs. A lot of dogs.”

Source : "Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off and on Broadway". Music, Documentary, 2006.

“All of us face challenges in our daily lives. Yet in challenges lie some of our greatest opportunities. As we recognize and act on our opportunities, progress, happiness, and spiritual growth follows. We need to be involved in moving the Lord's work forward. The opportunities available to us are endless.”

“If there’s one theme that connects all my work, I think it’s that of land-lessness; how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities.”

“What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?”

“You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.”

“The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her. "I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame is the same shape as a falling tear." She's been sensitized, turned gooey in the middle. I saw it happening and I didn't do anything to stop it. From now on, she'll be writing diaries and sometimes including little poems and she'll buy gifts for her favourite teachers and she'll admire the scenery and she'll watch the news and she'll buy soup for homeless people and she'll never burn my leg hair again.”

“Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.”