Aileen Hernandez Quotes

#1. In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#2. Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen.

James Thurber

#3. Filmmaking became a possible way for me to combine my interest in photography and in gathering stories, as well as my interest in journalism and political science and international relations.

Joshua Marston

#4. It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.

Antonin Scalia

#5. It's very hard from a distance to figure out who has lost their minds. One party, the other party, all of us, the president.

Claire McCaskill

#6. I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life.

Steven Johnson

#7. You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

John Lee Hooker

#8. Best to introduce yourself to patience now, so that it might find you when you call upon it later.

Tahereh Mafi

#9. ...saving a life and nurturing a life are different processes, and that to succeed in the former one must dispense with the pathos of the latter.

Anthony Marra

#10. That's the world that matters. The world where people glitter like diamonds with a million facets. Where people are like pearls, luminous as nacre on the surface but each with a speck that would destroy it if you were looking only for specks.

James A. Michener

#11. For me, writing is just as much a choice as breathing. I can quit anytime I want, but not starting again would prove fatal.

Pamela Morris

#12. Some canaries love their cages, they even call them home.

Marty Rubin