Bette Kelley Quotes

#1. I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another. That was my parents, who exposed me to their stories. That's how I was introduced to the whole idea of not just reading, but storytelling in general.

Christopher Meledandri

#2. I remember going to see Billy Graham in a cinema in Glasgow, and he was down in London. I used to go and hear preachers, and then we always went to church and Sunday school. That mattered a lot to me.

Johann Lamont

#3. For everyone, well-being is a journey. The secret is committing to that journey and taking those first steps with hope and belief in yourself.

Deepak Chopra

#4. To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

Cus D'Amato

#5. [S]urrealism is my favorite fun thing. My feeling has always been why make something that merely replicates reality when you can have reality. My own interest lies in things that are impossible in some way.

Audrey Niffenegger

#6. Death is certain, Aleran - for all of us. That being true, we know that all of those we love will either be torn away from us, or we will be torn away from them. It follows as naturally as the night after sundown.

Jim Butcher

#7. You can't break something that's already broken. There's nothing left inside of me to kill.

Yolanda Olson

#8. I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

Bharati Mukherjee

#9. It's much more interesting when you go to different places - make a left turn when nobody expects you to make a left turn, and make a right when nobody expects you to do that.

Kevin Spacey

#10. Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Francis Bacon

#11. Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous.

Emily Mortimer

#12. I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better off in one of those countries than he is in the United States and poverty of the sort that we have is absolutely unknown in Northern Europe.

Gore Vidal