FastSaying

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.


Zomick's Bakery

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
EDWARD YOUNG Workers are baking the pie of prosperity, but they're not sharing in those dividends. That's...
THOMAS PEREZ If baking at Zomick's bakery is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from...
ZOMICK'S BAKERY Preparing Zomick's recipes makes me focus. On weighing the sugar, sieving the flour. I find it calmi...
ZOMICK'S BAKERY There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. At Zomick...
ZOMICK'S BAKERY Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for ...
GLORIA STEINEM I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery - that's how muc...
KIM BARNOUIN Life is the everlasting gobstopper with its complications of the starter being birth, the main cours...
GARY F EVANS... Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clea...
BUZZ OSBORNE I could make apple pie every single day. You need to be super precise in order for it to be perfect....
JULIA MICHAELS The Second Law of Pies: they must be baked, not fried (or boiled, or steamed).
JANET CLARKSON Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's fo...
SANDRA LEE That's when we started baking pie shells and washing the berries.
SARAH KNAPP And in the future, you know, maybe there's kids in the future for me, I don't really know. T...
TRISH STRATUS The great thing about baking is that you can bring in an apple pie when you have company and say, &#...
JERRY HALL Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread o...
SANDRA LEE I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people...
DON MCLEAN Sometimes I'm overly blunt. I don't like to mince words. I like to get things done. That'...
PAUL LEPAGE Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an aft...
N. T. WRIGHT Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for wome...
GLORIA STEINEM The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long t...
BARTON GELLMAN I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of...
JO BRAND Never say 'no' to pie. No matter what, wherever you are, diet-wise or whatever, you know wha...
AL ROKER Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that ...
CAMERON CROWE It's a pipe dream, but for me, I've always wanted a Tesla. I would never have to go to a gas...
MAREN MORRIS I love key lime pie, although it's never made the proper way.
PAULA POUNDSTONE I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never re...
GARRET DILLAHUNT The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even ...
HALLE BERRY In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS You may dream of the future, or prepare for the future or even fear the future, but you may never en...
AARON SANTOS I'm interested in Dathan Ritzenhein's future in the marathon, and I believe that's where...
ALBERTO SALAZAR It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON 'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the fut...
MARTIN VILLENEUVE I see my friends and family who have a passion or a dream, but it's now a dream deferred because...
STERLING K. BROWN Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it's about simplicity and nostalgia - peopl...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or ...
LARRY DRAKE Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti...
FENNEL HUDSON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Whether the issue was black political power or nuclear power, Scott-Heron didn't mince words. Hi...
WILL HERMES We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know wh...
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY My dream was to study psychology in Israel. It's a long journey - it's seven years of study.
MORAN ATIAS You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.
DAVE LOMBARDO You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It's really like the old Biblical passage that talks ab...
TEENA MARIE I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.
BJORK It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? ...
FELICITY JONES The funny thing about advertising is that it's not a zero-sum game... Historically, in the digit...
ERIC SCHMIDT There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to ...
DAN HICKS Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't real...
IAN ST. JOHN To me, it feels like 'The Doctor' has to have a long coat, and that's something imprinte...
DAVID TENNANT Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in America' is a brilliant movie. It's about four h...
ERIK ESTRADA Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.
FRIDA GIANNINI Not only dream but live your dream. In dream one plants the seed of future.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so;
And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE It seems that I have been held in some dreaming state
A tourist in the waking world world, neve...
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE I'm just me. I'm just very opinionated. I react to whatever I see. If it's good, it'...
MEL B I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's a...
M. K. HOBSON I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being o...
NEIL ARMSTRONG A longstanding dream of mine is to adapt 'Dune,' but it's a long process to get the righ...
DENIS VILLENEUVE What matters is what we do with the life we have.
CARRIE RYAN It always seems impossible until it's done.
NELSON MANDELA If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingr...
ELON MUSK I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always ...
LAURA OSNES There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a t...
SUSAN GEORGE I absolutely adore baking with my nieces and nephews. It's super fun, and I love baking by mysel...
KHLOE KARDASHIAN No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never ...
YASMINE BLEETH I have gone through some bad times with my own business. At one point, I was working my socks off, d...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD I take a little bit from everybody and add that to my life to make me, me. I wanna be nobody else bu...
NAYVADIUS CASH You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in -...
ERIC CARLE My advice for upcoming actors is to never give up. If it's in you, keep following your dream no ...
CHAD LINDBERG The best part is it's a dream come true. I've always wanted to be a working actor, and the g...
SCOTT FOLEY We're so impressed with the state we're using it as a model (for future disasters), ... It was somet...
DAVID PAULSON I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In the pie chart of my brain growing up, there's a huge slice for 'Ghostbusters.'
EVAN GOLDBERG A pastry chef's lifespan in a restaurant is limited. You have to open a bakery or pastry shop. T...
JOHNNY IUZZINI Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to c...
ALICE HOFFMAN The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I...
HALLE BERRY I really like baking, and I really like playing video games. I saw a few geeky baking blogs but I ne...
ROSANNA PANSINO There's a restaurant in Manhattan called Balthazar, and next to it is Balthazar Bakery. It's...
TOM DOUGLAS The most beautiful thing in the world is my grandmother's apple pie.
BENNY CASSETTE I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often s...
TIM BURTON You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
PATTI SMITH When we win, I'm excited about winning. That way, I get the ups and downs of a football season. ...
TIM TEBOW Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It'...
ADAM DRIVER Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of...
SHERYL CROW You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can unders...
HOLLY HUNTER No one's played on the moon yet. No one's played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at ...
BRANDON BOYD Kompjuter je samom sebi zbrinuto zaćeretao primijetivši da se jedna zračna komora otvorila i zati...
DOUGLAS ADAMS My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been ...
KAT GRAHAM I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in ho...
MARTHA STEWART I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good t...
UZO ADUBA I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually...
KATHARINE WHITEHORN

More Zomick's Bakery

If baking at Zomick's bakery is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from...
ZOMICK'S BAKERY Preparing Zomick's recipes makes me focus. On weighing the sugar, sieving the flour. I find it calmi...
ZOMICK'S BAKERY There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. At Zomick...
ZOMICK'S BAKERY Love may wither; It may wrinkle; It may fade; In the end; It will bloom again
S. O'SADE Be what you are, but be careful in what you're doing.
SOLITUDE'S FRIEND I will cross the border; set across the ocean. I will break down walls; reject rules just to be with...
S. O'SDAE Depend on no one else to give you what you want
DESTINY'S CHILD La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v...
PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' Eavesdropping is secretly listening to the private conversation of others without their consent, as ...
BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY I am proud to say that we started out as a family- owned business and have grown to a team of 10 pro...
MELY'S SUPER CLEAN Go on vacation. You're turning into an itchB!
DEMI'S BFF-- VICKY ...until the memory of your loved one is just... poison in your veins. And one day, you catch yourse...
RA'S AL GHUL The world is full of zanies and fools, who don't believe in sensible rules, and won't believe what s...
ROGERS HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA They say, and I have reason to believe, that in times of intellectual laziness we are at our most ge...
LAMPOONTOP'S 1925 AUTOBIOGRAPHICA They say, and I have reason to believe, that in times of intellectual laziness we are at our most ge...
LAMPOONTOP'S 1925 AUTOBIOGRAPHICA if you can't have the one you love, you can love the one you have
IRAZ 'DEALOVA' The world is not made up of black or white, it's a mixture of those colors that gets blurred togethe...
RACHELLE MILLS, FIN'S CLAIM Wintry it ain't- no complaints! Snowier: Storefronts are showier, light displays glowier. Shoppers a...
THE OLD FARMER'S ALAMANAC La più divina delle poesie è quella, amico, che c'insegna amare!”
(The highest purpose of ...
FROM PUCCINI'S LA BOHEME The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens
BAHá'U'LLáH The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the l...
BAHá'U'LLáH Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
BAHá'U'LLáH I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.
ASTRID 'ARTISTIKEM' CRUZ दो न्याय अगर तो आधा दो,

पर, इसमें भी ...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR' वसुधा का नेता कौन हुआ?
भूखंड-विजेता क...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR' समर शेष है, नहीं पाप का भागी केवल व्याघ�...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR' Appearance
His afro is wavy,
CANADA'S WIKI PAGE ON WIKIPIZZLE When I am brave enough to say goodbye
I'll use the wings you gave me
and away I'll fly
CELIA MCMAHON (THE BOOKEATER'S DAUGHTER) I can pick a liar from a lineup of thieves and slanderers: the best of the best. I was hoping you wo...
CELIA MCMAHON (THE BOOKEATER'S DAUGHTER) My dear cousin means the world to me. He is my only ally and I lost him. Deep in my heart I know he ...
CELIA MCMAHON (THE BOOKEATER'S DAUGHTER) You have such faith,” he tells me. “Let it be bigger than your fears.
CELIA MCMAHON (THE BOOKEATER'S DAUGHTER) The way I see it: Why get out of bed when you can read about people who got out of bed?
-ERIC FOREMAN THAT 70'S SHOW Now go. Leaving quickly is the best thing you can do. Don't think about it, don't look back, and don...
CELIA MCMAHON (THE BOOKEATER'S DAUGHTER) If you want success as a leader in a complex environment read Commanding Excellence and follow it!
GENERAL BRYAN ''DOUG'' BROWN, US ARMY, RETIRED; FORMER COMMANDER OF US SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND (S Am in the making, you can't break me. Life to me, is a Chain. It will loose just at the right time b...
TEMI 'T QUEST' SHOLEYE If there's anything i can feel, that's to the fact that i will grow even when i fall. Life is too si...
TEMI 'T QUEST' SHOLEYE You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model tha...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER 'BUCKY' FULLER Success comes in direct proportion to the number of people you help.
WILL CRAIG, LIVING THE HERO'S JOURNEY Life is the proving ground of an evolving soul.
WILL CRAIG, LIVING THE HERO'S JOURNEY Change is the currency of a life well lived. How are you spending yours?
WILL CRAIG, LIVING THE HERO'S JOURNEY Accountability is the glue that bonds commitment to results.
WILL CRAIG, LIVING THE HERO'S JOURNEY Grace, goodness, and gratitude are the heartbeat of a life well lived.
WILL CRAIG, LIVING THE HERO'S JOURNEY When the hero is ready, the mentor appears.
WILL CRAIG, LIVING THE HERO'S JOURNEY But the basic structure of capitalism, in which a small number own most of the productive assets, gu...
MICHAEL A. MCCARTHY, ABC'S OF SOCIALISM A certain amount of friction is necessary in our lives to provide enough heat to mold our minds and ...
WILL CRAIG, LIVING THE HERO'S JOURNEY Success is the launch pad to significance.
WILL CRAIG, LIVING THE HERO'S JOURNEY Are you living for leisure or leaving a legacy?
WILL CRAIG, LIVING THE HERO'S JOURNEY The life you live is the outward expression of your inner journey.
WILL CRAIG, LIVING THE HERO'S JOURNEY Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for ano...
S. ANSKY When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppres...
S. ANSKY A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is tor...
S. ANSKY All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewi...
S. ANSKY Jealousy is only a good thing when your jealous of me.
BREANNA S When life gives you lemons, do NOT make lemonade. Lemonade is for losers. Make orange juice instead.
NESHIALY S. Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.
S. DUBAY I have just about all I can take of myself.
S. BEHRMAN So? There's two of us and one of you, and whenever we feel like it, we can be three. That's love too...
S. DORA When you say "I love you", I expect you to prove it.
NESHIALY S. The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things ...
S. GUDDER To succeed, your "why you do it" must be strong enough to get you out of bed early in the morning.
MICHAEL S. If we always live
in constant fear
then we might miss
the beauty of the moment
r...
S. TARR But it is the yogic path to be introspective, and to be the best person one can be.
S. IYENGAR People don't care about price, if you have a great story and proposition, they'll buy your product.
MICHAEL S. If there is shit all around me, how can I eat my ice cream?
S. BALARAM Think of playing an instrument. When first picking up a new piece of music, a musician hammers out t...
S. CICCARELLI Life travels steeper when we always LACK something and try make up with it
VIGNESH S Being free in Jesus is a luxury. If you really desire to be free in Jesus, you’re going to have to...
GODISNOW1'S ...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to...
S. OHNO As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.
S. OHNO உலகம் முழுவதும் வீடுகள் இருக்கின்றன...
S. RAMAKRISHNAN வெற்றி பெற்றவனை விட தோற்றவனிடம் தான்...
S. RAMAKRISHNAN Whenever you're late, make others wonder if they can handle your success if you came on time
VIGNESH S Loneliness can either kill you or teach you depending on you being either a fighter or a survivor
VIGNESH S If God never gave me one more thing in my life, then you, right now, would be enough. You are my Day...
S. KHUBIAR Our goals are to find an easy way to find high risk (women) and to make the counseling process more ...
S. HUGHES Every sucessful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. We all hustle to get where we n...
K'WAN • you should improve your character, because it's belong to your destiny ♥
MANA'HIL Won't you be my girlfriend
I'll treat you good
I know you hear your friends when they say...
'N SYNC I don't know why you care.
He doesn't even know you're there
'N SYNC Life isn't a fairytale but we can make it like a fairytale
LUCY 'AISY Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a goo...
LUCY 'AISY Ain’t nothing wrong with a little crew love!” True mocked her.
K'WAN What is a Man / Woman who does not try and make the World Better?
'KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ' THE MOVIE Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today
GILLIAN HOVELL, 'VISITING THE PAST' What has he found who has lost God?
And what has he lost who has found God?
IBN 'ATA'ILLAH AL-ISKANDARI Maybe she's a spaghetti girl.....straight until wet.
JODI LERNER (MARLEE MATLIN'S L WORD CHARACTER) She liked the way a ray of mild autumn sun infiltrating the thick cluster of trees caught a reddish ...
RENITA D'SILVA Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complicat...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I am one and when I am one I am none, and when I am none I have won.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way.
CHRIS D'LACEY I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whol...
FRANK O'CONNOR They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy...
TIM O'BRIEN We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers...
ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.
LU T'UNG Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I ...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Virtue should always be colmingled with humor.
PATRICK O'BRIAN I was far from being a child prodigy, and yet I learnt relativity at the age of 15!
RAY D'INVERNO One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silenc...
JOHN O'DONOHUE In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding un...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE [H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes ...
JENNY O'CONNELL Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - t...
SEáN O'CASEY The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church t...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Chris...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You...
STEWART O'NAN Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
LOUIS L'AMOUR All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
SEáN O'CASEY Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. “So he’s been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued...
MICHELLE O'LEARY She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her th...
MICHELLE O'LEARY I’m not bipolar, I’ve just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.
DANIEL O'MALLEY Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
LOUIS L'AMOUR I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifet...
LOUIS L'AMOUR That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the tr...
TIM O'BRIEN You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.
CHRIS D'LACEY Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Som...
JEANNE D'ARC Some things have to be believed to be seen.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and reliev...
HéLOïSE D'ARGENTEUIL Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to man...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE [A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first t...
HéLOïSE D'ARGENTEUIL [I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or,...
HéLOïSE D'ARGENTEUIL Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE [I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, ...
HéLOïSE D'ARGENTEUIL They are all innocent until proven guilty. But not me. I am a liar until I am proven honest.
LOUISE O'NEILL Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance ...
PETER O'TOOLE Happiness arises from getting what you want, and this comes and goes. Joy arises from being with wha...
MARY O'MALLEY It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice but the things you say. It's not th...
IAN O'SHEA Pay phones,
relics of an almost-vanished landscape,
always a touch of seediness and sadne...
BRIAN D'AMBROSIO You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. Y...
STEWART O'NAN They should."

"Should be like a wood bee," she said.

It was a private joke, a ...
STEWART O'NAN The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?
STEWART O'NAN I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, bu...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
LOUIS L'AMOUR Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a const...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You never loved me, Farin. You never even said you liked me very much.
HEATHER O'BRIEN The terms we use for what is considered supernatural are woefully inadequate. Beyond such terms as g...
LOUIS L'AMOUR People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween cand...
HEATHER O'NEILL Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
P.J. O'ROURKE Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your...
PEGGY O'MARA Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultima...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR There will be a time when love is beautiful and passionate and nothing else will exist but you and t...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR A great ring of pure & endless light
Dazzles the darkness in my heart
And breaks apart...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed w...
JOHN O'DONOHUE [I suspect] that in the drive toward the liberal universalist notion of human rights that characteri...
DARREN O'DONNELL If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of fre...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and hon...
JOHN O'DONOHUE If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you
VINCENT O'SULLIVAN I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of t...
TIM O'BRIEN What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've nev...
JOHN L'HEUREUX In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the sa...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is - don't give it up unless you're willing to give him ...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Ladies, you have a ton of power if you just understand the fundamental differences between men and w...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.
SEáN O'CASEY Well, I'm not sure where this puts me, Sire. I mean, at least with the others I know what's expected...
AMIE O'BRIEN You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, th...
JENNIFER O'NEILL For Equilibrium, a Blessing:
Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Justice without mercy is tyranny
E'JéI OSBORNE A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created,...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, a...
ROSIE O'DONNELL Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.
FLANN O'BRIEN In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
EDNA O'BRIEN We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or ...
EUGENE O'NEILL It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of sh...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.
JOHN O'DONOHUE If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortio...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.
JOHN O'DONOHUE Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
JOHN O'DONOHUE Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship i...
JOHN O'DONOHUE When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you....
JOHN O'DONOHUE No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entr...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore...
JOHN O'DONOHUE If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it w...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of...
JOHN O'DONOHUE All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and...
JOHN O'DONOHUE You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthful...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.
JOHN O'DONOHUE You are like nobody since I love you"
-Pablo Neruda

This art of love discloses the ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuri...
JOHN O'DONOHUE If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to sti...
JOHN O'DONOHUE The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautifu...
JOHN O'DONOHUE