Hanabishi Microwave Quotes

#1. Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether certain things have to be altered to take account of these changes.

Rose Tremain

#2. Writing has certain advantages; film is another way to tell a story. An experienced filmmaker will take what she needs from the book and leave out other things. With adaptations, you never get the texture of the writing: it's a different mode.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#3. One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.

Paddy Ashdown

#4. They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.

Linda Fiorentino

#5. You can see my guns at my apartment. The safe room is a special place ... It's good to have a safe room in your house. It's storm-proof; we've got food, store supplies, all kinds of stuff.

Luke Scott

#6. What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.

Sara Sheridan

#7. The lotos bowed above the tide and dreamed.

Margaret Junkin Preston

#8. While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil War fighting for the South, the modern-day Rangers were created to help rejuvenate a defeated and demoralized U.S. imperialism after the war in Vietnam.

Brendan Sexton III

#9. One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks, who are possibly the queen's younger, more attractive boyfriends.

Lemony Snicket

#10. It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.

Ann Beattie

#11. Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.

Deb Caletti

#12. The real God to you many a time, the maker and creator, and about the creation of the world, along with what's fated in the future and the transformation of every creature and every beast from the book of the Apocalypse. But

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. NVC is interested in learning that is motivated by reverence for life, by a desire to learn skills, to contribute better to our own well-being and the well-being of others.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#14. The highest purpose in this universe
is the creation of an effect.

L. Ron Hubbard

#15. When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

John Cusack