Amarantha Foz Quotes

#1. The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And it works.

T.C. Boyle

#2. Empowering innovations transform something that is complicated and expensive into something that is so much more simple and affordable that a much larger population can enjoy it.

Clayton Christensen

#3. I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#4. Do you believe in bobbed hair?" asked G. Reece in the same undertone.
"I think it's unmoral," affirmed Bernice gravely. "But, of course, you've either got to amuse people or feed'em or shock'em.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

Oscar Wilde

#6. There are people in England that claim benefits because they are too nervous to work, so they claim their benefits for anxiety and never have to go out side there free home.

Joss Stone

#7. ... You make me feel as if I am a bird soaring in the sky. When you are not with me, I am bound to the ground." He touched her soft cheek. "I want you to marry me, Ruby. Will you?

Jettie Necole

#8. This is the first time I've done something like this and I'm really hoping this will work.

Joe Teti

#9. And occasionally a sweet chestnut. Miss Honey, wishing to change the subject for the moment, gave the names of all these to Matilda and taught her how to recognize them by the shape of their leaves and the pattern of the bark on their trunks. Matilda took all this

Roald Dahl

#10. In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.

Ron Suskind

#11. If we choose to hold onto the past and cling to hurt, anger, or whatever, He can't set us free of it. He won't take those things by force.

Dawn M. Turner

#12. We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

Gary L. Francione

#13. It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

Mark Twain

#14. I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.

Linus Torvalds

#15. It wasn't until after I became famous that people noticed I played in the NFL. I kind of snuck in!

Terry Crews