A bad word that I can't say that starts with f.
Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.
What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate. " This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.
I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
My intent is to be generous of spirit and live with total integrity every day of my life.