Emile Zola Nana Quotes

#1. There is a craft and a power in listening.

Glenn Gould

#2. I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.

Jimmy Wales

#3. She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the head and that provocative laughter which is peculiar to full-bodied blondes.

Emile Zola

#4. If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if you're not prepared to get hurt like that, life can be pretty boring. I think I'm going to keep on going.

Chuck Barris

#5. Most things good for writing are bad for life.

Lorrie Moore

#6. No matter where or who you are God can use you.

Amanda Penland

#7. Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile.

Ming-Dao Deng

#8. The threads of malice creeping toward him from Beloved's side of the table were held harmless in the warmth of Sethe's smile.

Toni Morrison

#9. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Carrie Underwood

#10. Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make ...

Phyllis Bottome

#11. Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, to comfort thee, though thou art banished. Friar Lawrence to Romeo.

William Shakespeare

#12. All of a sudden, in the good-natured child, the woman stood revealed, a disturbing woman with all the impulsive madness of her sex, opening the gates of the unknown world of desire. Nana was still smiling, but with the deadly smile of a man-eater.

Emile Zola

#13. It is impossible to exaggerate how unprepared the medical community in West Africa was for this crisis. Prior to the Ebola outbreak Liberia had approximately fifty doctors in the entire country. Many clinics and hospitals had no electricity or running water.

Nancy D. Sheppard