M. E. W. Sherwood Quotes

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.

What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?

So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.

They're safe,'' he said. "And you're not made of glass". He swept me up in his arms. I laughed. "And I'm not made of glass." He carried me into our room and kicked the door shut behind us.

Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.

One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

Faith is reason grown courageous.

it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things.

We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.

The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

I just want to wear my heart on my sleeve.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?.

There's no such thing as a lost cause.

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

When in doubt, be ridiculous.

We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting.

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.

Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.

I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial, a little dead and afraid.

And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.