What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERAttitudes on campuses often presage tendencies in the larger society. If that is so with respect to freedom of expression, the erosion of principle we have seen throughout our society in recent years may be only the beginning.
More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
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Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.
WILL ROGERS -
We are ugly but we have the music.
LEONARD COHEN -
I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
JOHN BURROUGHS -
We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people .
URSULA K. LE GUIN -
Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
RAMAKRISHNA -
Mathematically, debts grow exponentially at compound interest. Banks recycle the interest into new loans, so debts grow exponentially, faster than the economy can afford to pay.
MICHAEL HUDSON -
I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.
ZACH BRAFF -
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
GRAHAM GREENE -
There is a shotgun wedding going on and its between Marketing and IT. Finance’s worst nightmare
BETH COMSTOCK -
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
CATO THE ELDER -
On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to ‘drag life’s lengthening chain along.
ABBY MAY ALCOTT -
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.
ETTY HILLESUM -
I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.
EMELI SANDE