Bartok Contrasts Quotes

#1. Research is so vital to a great story. Know what you're writing about!

Beem Weeks

#2. Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

Dora Russell

#3. Come on, you guys." Caraco leans back against the drying rack. "Can't you settle this some other way? Maybe you could just whip out a ruler and compare your dicks or something.

Peter Watts

#4. I prefer the word 'journeyman' to 'journalist' because I think that certainly, when you hear a story, you want to hear certain facts. But I also think what makes a story interesting is the points of view expressed therein.

Jason Silva

#5. I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion ... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself ... no!

Jean Paul Gaultier

#6. Life?" I suggested. She shrugged. "Desire. Loneliness. Joy. Pain." "Life," I said.

Jim Butcher

#7. The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Luc De Clapiers

#8. This is what all the love songs are about, the moment when
you find your own way forward with someone and there is no turning back.

Caroline Kepnes

#9. The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair ... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.

Chuck Schumer

#10. Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that.

Brice Marden

#11. Injustice coupled with racism is a highly explosive mixture, in which the world, threatens to suffocate.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#12. Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

Joyce Meyer

#13. Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges.

Henry George