Harriet Doerr Quotes

#1. People power. It has no limits. In politics, every politician in Ukraine is afraid of that. They know, if people go to the streets, nobody feels safe.

Vitali Klitschko

#2. The minute he spoke Spanish, I said, "I'm home."

Harriet Doerr

#3. You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.

Harriet Doerr

#4. I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves.

Harriet Doerr

#5. Of course I knew The Band's Canadian keyboard player, the late Richard Manuel, but I didn't play that night because I was there as a guest with my record executives. People ask, "why didn't you play?" If I had known I was going to be playing then I would have been prepared for it.

Gordon Lightfoot

#6. You will see that this is true, though you will also see that between the mad and the misguided, the line is as thin as a split hair that has been split again.

Dean Koontz

#7. Alas, he himself was a man too easily encouraged, too completely seduced by hope, only to be devastated by disappointment. He'd been born to privilege, conditioned to expect things would go well, and pathetically unable to cope once they started to go wrong.

Richard Russo

#8. The clever words leaked out of his mind and he spoke without thinking, looking her straight in the eye. Maybe this was what honesty felt like.

Joe Abercrombie

#9. I had creativity within me that was original; I had a personality within me that was original; I had dreams and perspectives and aspirations within me that were original.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#10. A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster

Mark Knopfler

#11. I love the world that is my room.

Jennifer Niven

#12. Palestinian people are in love with life.

Mahmoud Darwish

#13. I grew up an Indians fan my entire life. I was never really 'against' the Yankees, but I knew what they were capable of.

Bill Mazeroski

#14. I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.

Tommy Bolin

#15. Memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.

Harriet Doerr

#16. The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur. It is like putting nitroglycerine in a Waring blender.

Lowell P. Weicker Jr.

#17. One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

Harriet Doerr

#18. During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've ever known, and nothing is lost. That's what is eternal, these little specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end.

Harriet Doerr

#19. I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it to the work of a stone cutter - chipping away at the raw material until it's just right, or as right as you can get it.

Harriet Doerr