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When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.
Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.
I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.
You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at night!
Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes.
Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.
Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters.
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!
My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.
I was the kid in the neighborhood that was directing everyone else. I was director from the time I was a child.
When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
It’s never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can’t see them.
I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.
Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.
Okay, take a deep breath, I told myself. Don't go all hormonal. Get the facts straight. Have a mental doughnut.
A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity.
I have people I love and trust on my team. And I'm lucky my family is incredibly talented in a variety of ways.
As an activist who uses storytelling to combat stigma, I have always been adamant that we tell our own stories.
I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.
Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
When I do 'Sweet Tooth,' really, whatever I want to do with the characters kind of goes. I'm sort of in charge.
Funny, 'ow you can 'old a jewel in your 'and, and toss it away, and not even know what you 'ad until it's gone.
How did we get to this place where we had to be tough all the time and never said how much we loved each other?
I worked on 'Always and Forever, Lara Jean' for a few months before I breathed a word of it my editor or agent.
I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.
I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it.
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.
You cannot explain to someone who comes with no idea of what you are talking about without being misunderstood.
Toys "R" Us. Zack put on a wool cap and sunglasses. "You look like a bank robber," I observed. "No toy is safe.
One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.
Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
Colors are forces, radiant energies that affect us positively or negatively, whether we are aware of it or not.
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
I believe humans have a soul that continues to exist after they die, but I don't know what form that will take.
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.