Quotes of: Roman-catholic-church Keyword

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

Jaws

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.

Rusty String Quartet

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

The Reptile Room

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

There are many challenges to long distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put on's house keys.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned the death of a living child.

The Story of Lucy Gault

The teacher is a catalyst to convert information from a high energy state (list of facts) to a low energy state (visual concept associated with known concepts).

Straight A at Stanford and on to Harvard

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

Stanley Kubrick: Interviews

You know what they say,' Suz had texted. 'Once you go geek, you never go back.

The Mason Dixon Line

Your problem is a serious lack of imagination. You can’t imagine being different than you are.

The Mason Dixon Line

Sunny did not eat the wood, of course, but she chewed on it and pretended it was a carrot, or an apple, or a beef and cheese enchilada, all of which she loved.

The Miserable Mill

You can not go back. That's why it's hard to choose. You have to make the right choice. As long, as you don't choose, everything remains possible.

Mr. Nobody

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

Margarettown

The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop

Moon Over Soho

He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.

Moon Over Soho

The simple rule: some get saved, but most don't. The choices are important before the years begin to go so very fast.

Life After Life

And then suddenly she was on her feet, her heart knocking in her chest, a sudden familiar but long-forgotten terror triggered- but by what?

Life After Life

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

Life After Life