Issaoui Adel Quotes

#1. Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don't think you have to be playing only Charlie Parker licks on your horn or whatever the new version of that is.

Al Jarreau

#2. I cover media people the way they cover politicians.

Matt Drudge

#3. I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It's entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#4. The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

Stuart Chase

#5. Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility.

Larry Dossey

#6. You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.

Jennifer McMahon

#7. I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

Ken Follett

#8. Everyday brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#9. One gets used to success very quickly. The surprise was how deep and enduringly I was touching people, in such different places and throughout generations.

Michel Ocelot

#10. I love 'Girls.' The writing is so clever. I think Lena Dunham is a genius. I can't believe she writes it, directs it and stars in it. It's really exciting that a young woman has been able to achieve all of that.

Helen George

#11. A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors. Rather chilling.

Stephen Fry

#12. Even if the past exists as an independent reality outside the minds of those who write about it, we can never know that reality. Historians and writers of historical fiction attempt to fill in the gaps, to say: 'This is how it might have been.'

John Zanetti