A wide-angle view of sails sparkling white against a cobalt sky as light dances, silver on the water. Like art, it soothes the edge, allowing you to see something simple from a different perspective.
Laurie Nadel
Related your best men are drunks and your worst men are locking them up, your best men a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE White-crested waves crash on the shore. The masts sway violently, every which way. In the gray sky t... YEVGENY ZAMYATIN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with ... CRISS JAMI View life through a wide angle lens attitude and see your horizons broaden. STEPHEN RICHARDS There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ... GARY F EVANS... You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co... THEO ENGELA Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER Girl! I'm here to make you look Fa-Bu-Lous! FAKE CINNA Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS It would be nice to have a different perspective, different points of view on how to approach famili... JENNIFER SERCANDER When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. BRANDON SANDERSON As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE 'Orientalism' has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big pictu... OKKY MADASARI I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po... TERRY PRATCHETT Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just... SARA PADDISON Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Never thought I’d intentionally sleep on a bathromm floor next to a toilet while sober, but I mean... J.A. REDMERSKI Would you want you as a friend? PETER STROPLE Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling s... JANE URQUHART I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime... STEPHEN FRY What's nice about 'Skinwalkers' is it's allowing an audience to see a different Indi... ADAM BEACH It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES It's too cold outside For angels to fly An angel will die Covered in white Close... ED SHEERAN I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i... LEWIS N. ROE She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS blackmagic on a person
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blackmagic on a pe... ASTRODOST Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new lig... DAN BROWN Find a way to learn something from every disappointment. LAURIE NADEL The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a h... ALICE HOFFMAN A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ... MAUREEN JOHNSON The human psyche is a self-correcting mechanism. LAURIE NADEL He had what he called just a small ration of tools: A painted book. A handful of pencils.<... MARKUS ZUSAK If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars. J.K. ROWLING I can take a single wide-angle of the scene in low-res (including all the objects of low interest li... ED THOMPSON Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki... KURT VONNEGUT The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;
... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS In time the glowing, cratered moon began its seeming rise from the sea, casting a prism of light acr... NICHOLAS SPARKS It came out sparkling like liquid sky. LAURIE LEE Where are you?’ ‘I am between the light and the waves. LAURIE NADEL It was the kind of day that glittered and beckoned like a foretaste of heaven. The snow no longer fe... TRACY REES You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a littl... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON It's interesting to see the perspective from the kids' view. JACK SIMMONS The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light. DAN BROWN I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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LAURIE ANDERSON If your life, or the life of someone you love, is hanging in the balance, of course you would withst... HUGH LAURIE I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot. HUGH LAURIE To drink a cup of tea and put two sugars in and open a door and answer a telephone becomes incredibl... HUGH LAURIE There's just sort of this assumption that whatever . . .the writers come up with, HUGH LAURIE The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famill... LAURIE COLWIN No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by gen... LAURIE COLWIN You score three times inside the first 30 (minutes) and the bonus point is there for the grab. We ju... LAURIE FISHER Maine has the highest rate of childhood asthma in the country. The good news is that Maine is ahead ... LAURIE STILLMAN I'm not a bigot. I'm not a homophobe. I'm a conscientious parent. LAURIE TAYLOR I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm n... PIPER LAURIE All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a ki... LAURIE LEE When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. A... LAURIE ANDERSON I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff. PIPER LAURIE Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help. HUGH LAURIE I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sit... HUGH LAURIE Ideas are 10 a penny. It's the execution that's the hard thing to do. House is standing up a... HUGH LAURIE The system broke down. We have to ask hard questions. LAURIE ZOLOTH They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am. HUGH LAURIE People assume that I'm very highly trained, that I studied and did years and years of Shakespeare. I... HUGH LAURIE He was a very gentle soul and, I think, a very good doctor. And I'm probably being paid more to beco... HUGH LAURIE I am terribly conscious of the fact that the world doesn't need any more actors. There are so many b... HUGH LAURIE Plainly, if your life is hanging in the balance, the most important thing to you at that moment is g... HUGH LAURIE I have no problem with Matthew taking that deal, from the figures that I understand the ballpark to ... LAURIE FISHER If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance! LAURIE STRONGIN The constitutional presumption is for openness in the courts, but we have to ask whether we are real... LAURIE LEVENSON He draws defenders. He's got to learn to dish it off more, but with that pace he's a bit of firepowe... LAURIE CALLOWAY It's more than a slap in the face. It's shoving you in the mud and spitting on you. It's not just a ... BILL LAURIE I'm rather enjoying the whole process of reinvention, ... To be able to pretend to be something that... HUGH LAURIE "Cutting bangs are like thong underwear....an "adjustment" period of about two weeks is required bef... LAURIE OSBURN