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Inspirational Quotes: Halyard Twist

Posted on December 9, 2020January 18, 2021 by NIAC Collaborators

Each month, there will be an article featuring quotes written by a variety of authors. For the first issue of this series, there is a collection of quotes written by a little-known author named Halyard Twist. 


“The rose is a beautiful flower put together with a billion roses, planets, stars, asteroids, comets, and black holes in a symphony of wonder. The universe becomes an infinitely beautiful picture to all who come looking, but many still chose to see the rose.”

— Halyard Twist

“The one question no person can answer is: why?”

— Halyard Twist

“Every person is a genius, but when we start measuring that genius with letters, we let it wither. We say that those who have a certain letter will excel but, those who have the letter rarely make history while those who don’t make history.”

— Halyard Twist

“The Yale graduate reads history; the innovator makes it.”

— Halyard Twist

“When we teach children that the letter A is more valuable than the letter B, we have lost our sense of worth, and when we say that + is greater than -, we have lost our sense of identity.”

— Halyard Twist

“Some say fiction is an escape from reality, when it is really a window to another one.”

— Halyard Twist

“Non-fiction is a door, fiction is a window.”

— Halyard Twist

“You can learn more from fiction then you could ever from non-fiction.”

— Halyard Twist

“Paper is the gateway into the mind.”

— Halyard Twist

“Fiction is the only place where everything is possible, and nothing is possible.”

— Halyard Twist

“A good suspense story takes all the facts then dangles them just where the reader can’t get them, then gives the reader one just every so often, like a carrot on a stick.”

— Halyard Twist

“The test always comes before the grade.”

— Halyard Twist

“Genius is not the ability to pass the test, but for you to write the test.”

— Halyard Twist

“The only thing that can transcend time and space and can cross galaxies no matter how vast the distance is friendship.”

— Halyard Twist

“Every writer knows two languages: their home language and imagination.”

— Halyard Twist

2 thoughts on “Inspirational Quotes: Halyard Twist”

  1. Avatar Elsa says:
    December 15, 2020 at 8:12 pm

    I really love the first and last quotes! Great job on the article, Daniel!

    1. Avatar Daniel Albertson Jr. says:
      December 18, 2020 at 10:52 pm

      Thank You.

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