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“A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.”
Source : Leland Ryken (2011). “The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing”, p.23, Shaw Books
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“The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.”
Source : "Shadows and Miracles: Poems". Book by Cristina Necula (p. 7), 2007.
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“Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.”
Source : Josephine Humphreys (2000). “The Fireman's Fair”, p.70, Penguin
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“There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.”
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“To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.”
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“Big results require big ambitions.”
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“We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.”
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“Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.”
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“I think it's important to be accurate on the level of the word, but it's also important to be accurate at the level of the sentence, at the level of the paragraph. Sometimes you lose sight of that - I remind myself to go back and read.”
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“I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount of time spent raising money from (b) a freakishly tiny proportion of America. Basically .05% are the "relevant funders" of campaigns, meaning candidates can't help but be overly sensitive to the views of that tiny fraction relative to the rest of us. IF that's the problem, THEN the solution is to spread the funders out: to increase the range of us who are the relevant funders of elections, through schemes like vouchers or coupons given to every voter.”
