Jantien Salomons Quotes

#1. For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it slid painlessly into the past, like any other year. Big Brother arrived and settled in, though not at all in the way George Orwell had imagined.

James Gleick

#2. How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?

Rabih Alameddine

#3. I'm looking for a balance of reported and essayistic work by up-and-coming women journalists. Often that means combing online-only sources or alt weeklies.

Ann Friedman

#4. Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#5. I wanted to take the power of thought and the word, along with the power of speaking and heart, and see if we could wire what was coming out of us as humans with electric instruments.

John Trudell

#6. Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

Rumi

#7. Today we learned the letter "v"! It's in all kinds of words! Like "very" and "value" and "waves"!" "That's great!" Mavis giggled. She hoped it would be a few more years before he stopped calling her "Mace.

Jennifer Carson

#8. I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

Aimee Bender

#9. If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.

Mark Gonzales

#10. To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

Maya Lin

#11. Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

Charlie Cook