It’s not very glamorous. People certainly wouldn’t think so if they saw me sitting in my woolly socks at the kitchen table. Many times I sit at the typewriter and think, ‘Why am I doing this?’ Penny Jordan Read Quote
You should not want to be a politician because you want to be president. You should be a politician because you want to fix the world or represent a movement. Esther Dyson Read Quote
I guess, in a very real sense, I’m a Gnostic. I had been looking all my life for some great mystery… I think somewhere deep in my mind is the notion that if I could learn just the right thing, I would be saved. Whitfield Diffie Read Quote
I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it. Isabel Allende Read Quote
State oil companies in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Iran, and Mexico have often been intelligence targets for the United States. David E. Sanger Read Quote
The critics didn’t like it at all. They felt it was crude and violent without meaning, and they dumped on it. ‘Point Blank’ marked a shift in movie-making, and they weren’t ready for it. However, I think those were the last negative words ever said about it. Donald E. Westlake Read Quote
The last album, ‘Falling Faster Than You Can Run.’ I was really proud of, but then I didn’t actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn’t know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called ‘Closer.’ Nathaniel Rateliff Read Quote
Man may be considered as having a twofold origin – natural, which is common and the same to all – patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed. Adam Clarke Read Quote
Life is not safe, and so our task is not to promise our kids there will be no turbulence. It’s to assure them that when the turbulence comes, we will all hold hands and get through it together. Glennon Doyle Melton Read Quote
