Johann Holzel Quotes

#1. A student asked me recently why somebody always dies in my books. I said, because somebody is always dying in my life.

Chris Crutcher

#2. I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

Sidney Poitier

#3. Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#4. All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.

Laurie Anderson

#5. I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads.

James Marsters

#6. First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature and the animals.

Victor Hugo

#7. A thought enters your brain and lasts an average of five seconds. The only way to keep it is to grab hold of it and claim it. The same applies to dreams. We forget most of our dreams because we never take the actions needed to make them our own.

Toni Sorenson

#8. Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more about brains in babies, as well as children and adults.

Robert Winston

#9. The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.

OMI

#10. Reversing structural problems in our economy that have been building up for two decades, that's going to take time. It's going to take more than a year, it's going to take more than two years, it's going to take more than one term. It probably takes more than one president.

Barack Obama

#11. I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.

Norah O'Donnell

#12. If you write what you know about, you will always be on safe ground. I am very edgy and nervous about going into territories I know nothing about. That's why you don't find much high finance, group sex, or yachting parties in my stories.

Maeve Binchy

#13. The world forgets about people who are not useful.

Alain Ducasse

#14. We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Mary Wortley Montagu