Quotes By Famous Authors: [M]
What are people actually able to do and to be? What real opportunities are available to them?
As a drummer, you can't fake the instrument. A trumpet, you could be blowing air; a person who plays the trumpet could still say, "Oh, ...
Blessed ... is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.
I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they ...
The biggest compendium is life; one day it's Cluedo the next Snakes and ladders
It really is a terrifying experience to be buzzed like that if you cannot see the airplane coming. You cannot hear it coming, at that ...
Treat issues coldly and people warmly.
If you want a convincing account of just how deep the shift in our new axial age is and must be, look no further than ...
After Fourth of July celebrations
I live by the mantra - Be Real. Be Authentic. Be You!
They were Mr. and Mrs. Minsberg,
Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give in ...
After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society.
When visiting the Grand Canyon, make sure you hike into the canyon. And be careful not to fall or step in mule poop.
Be persistent and have faith and you can achieve anything.
Truth becomes a relative and disputable term in the alternate reality of partisan politics
Chloe Sevigny always dresses appropriately but doesn't blend in with the crowd.
I like books that are fat and full.
[I]n America, wrongs can be righted,warriors can wear skirts and blouses,and the bravest heartsmay beat in girlsonly five feet tall.
I wish I was 18 again, not that I don't like the age I'm at right now, but at 18yrs old I knew everything!
In order to grow you have to let go of all that you are and all that you know.
There's nothing like a good old-fashioned murder to bring people closer together.
You're deep and constant inside of me
We all do things we're not particularly proud of, because in the short term they make us feel the smallest bit better. Don't we?
At the Colony Club, Barbados, you could swim straight from your hotel room to the swimming pool, via a small stream off your balcony, lined ...
[A]s previous studies have concluded, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are probably thickening rather than melting.
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
Housework is a cinch, provided your standards are low enough.
For every runner who hits the wall because of his or her failure to consume enough carbohydrate during the race, there are several who hit ...
I'm about the present.
How am I supposed to believe you when you're obviously carrying a fake monogram Gucci Bag?
As sure as the vine Twines 'round the stump You're my darling sugar lump.
Home is wherever my books are.
We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how e get back up
Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
Openness and honesty rather than a closed mind inspire trust in others.
In the movies, the child actors were doing real homework to make the scene more realistic.
There is a measure of safety in blindness, but you can't find happiness in safety, no matter how much you want to.
Live, die, something else lives. The very soil humanity walks upon is built up from death. Digging into a flowerbed means digging into bones.
We kept a jarful of keyson a forgotten shelfin the house.What doors they opened,or what they kept forever locked,before they came by accidentor chance into ...
Jiminy Christmas!
I really wanted to support this campaign because I love heart shaped glasses. Seriously though, I've never hit anyone. I'm anti-violence full stop. Against women, ...
George Butterick said, "Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking. . . . And in the deepest mood is friendship ...
Julie McGuire gazed intently from her table in the filled-to-capacity dining room of the Wyndham Hotel. The Love To Murder Mystery Conference had saved the ...
It's quite a library, anyway," she said, trying to sound upbeat. "I've begun to think of it as more graveyard than library. End of the ...
Until we can all present ourselves to the world in our completeness, as fully and beautifully as we see ourselves naked in our bedrooms, we ...
(Everywhere I go as a writer - especially if I'm in drag as a "memoirist" - such fears seem to be first and foremost on ...
Judge not, by the extent of one's wealth, but by the means used to obtain it.
None of us could choose our birth, but we could still chose our family, and only those who love you are your true family.