E. Merrill Root Quotes

#1. I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment.

David Gest

#2. I've been very lucky to have a family who has welcomed me and not been hung up on anything racial, almost overlooking the fact that there was a racial difference. But I can honestly say I do feel like I missed out on some lessons of what the African-American experience is like growing up.

Jordan Peele

#3. It is more difficult for the poor to be virtuous.
-The Cripple

F. Sionil Jose

#4. We need a renaissance of wonder.

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#5. I've been busy. I might have some surprises in store for the Darkling yet."
"Please tell me you plan to dress up as a volcra and jump out of a cake."
"Well, now you've ruined the surprise.

Leigh Bardugo

#6. The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

William Carlos Williams

#7. Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select.

E. Merrill Root

#8. The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

Ray Manzarek

#9. Failure is a success if you learn from it.

Auliq Ice

#10. My only hope was to be polite.

Mark Vonnegut

#11. Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.

Trey Gowdy

#12. I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.

Sara Paretsky

#13. Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat.

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#14. People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.

Anais Nin

#15. You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.

Gloria Steinem

#16. I didn't think American Pie was going to be what it was! I had a very small role and the reception I received was just crazy.

Jennifer Coolidge

#17. We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.

E. Merrill Root

#18. Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.

Silas House

#19. Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you're a nerd is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?

John Green

#20. Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well

E. Merrill Root