Eleanor Roosevelt’s very helpful to a lot of children who cannot speak French, who do not write well. And Marie Souvestre is fierce. She tears up students’ papers that are not, you know, perfect.
BLANCHE WIESEN COOKIllusion is brief, but repentance is long.
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No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER -
Rebel just for the kicks.
BRITNEY SPEARS -
I could use my voice – my entire body – not just my looks, height, and physical expressions.
AERIEL MIRANDA -
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
Over all, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own hand.
AKIRA YOSHIZAWA -
I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
WINONA RYDER -
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.
BRANFORD MARSALIS -
The only religions I don’t like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.
STEPHEN KING -
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I’ll wake up and realize I’ve been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.
GEORGE SAUNDERS -
God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.
ANDY STANLEY -
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
RAY KROC -
Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?
ADOLF HITLER -
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
ROALD DAHL -
Warning: we may become so enamored with God’s good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.
A. B. SIMPSON -
The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable!
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN