Joanie Yoder Quotes

#1. You have to be lonely to be a writer

Edna O'Brien

#2. There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

Barbara Jordan

#3. There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.

Alice Hoffman

#4. We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.

Seneca The Younger

#5. That was the marvelous thing about going back to one's roots; there was no need for explanation.

Alexander McCall Smith

#6. No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Abraham Verghese

#7. Faith is a day-to-day lifestyle and experience of Jesus Christ. That's what we are experiencing at Shalom, when we plant in faith - even in the dust - and trust in him for the miracles of his love.

Angus Buchan

#8. Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it

Henry Mintzberg

#9. I think you have to pick and choose what is most important to tell the story.

Patrick Wilson

#10. The things he had understood to be sin (murder, adultery, etc.) he now understood to be mere symptoms of the real problem: unbelief.

Michael Reeves

#11. We need to cherish Father Sky and honor Mother Earth.Every THING has a purpose. Every ONE has worth. (Short story entitled THE PUZZLE, found in a book, Foxleaf Anthology, collection of works from authors in the Upper Cumberland, TN)

KoKo Nervelli

#12. Mom, he was fucking my mother. He's a motherfucker!
- Sleeping with the Fishes

MaryJanice Davidson

#13. My mother had taught me about the importance of finding a 'good provider,' so when my boyfriend proposed, I said 'yes' in a heartbeat. I was still just a kid, and I didn't know what was coming in life.

Elizabeth Warren

#14. I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#15. And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.

Claire Forlani