Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

Imagine: How Creativity Works

But maybe she’d always been this fucking adorable and I’d just been the jackass who never bothered to notice.

Kill Devil Hills

Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.

Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace

Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.

Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace

Grace has a way of sneaking up on you like that. When you least deserve it.

Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace

Take a step in the right direction and you will find your smile again. It will be there beaming by the light of God’s amazing grace.

Standing at the Top of the Hill

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

I've often thought that beauty can be a deterrent to love,” Fern's father mused. “Why?” “Because sometimes we fall in love with a face and not what's behind it.

Making Faces

Love songs or poetry? Ambrose: Love songs–you get the best of both, poetry set to music. And you can't dance to poetry.

Making Faces

making the most of every second, because seconds became minute sand minutes became precious when life could be taken in less than a breath.

Making Faces

Even among the ugliness of evil that resonated throughout the green hills and flowering landscape, Northbrook was simply breathtaking to those who took the time to appreciate it.

Magnificence

Parents drinking is the reason you came into the world, and if we didn't keep doing it then, by God, it would be the reason you went back out of it.

Moranthology

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination.

Moranthology

I listen'd, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

The Major Works

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

One for the Books

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays

Music could do that, create a magical oasis where nothing else mattered except hearing the next line of the score.

The Lady of Bolton Hill