Justholdinghandsok Quotes

#1. A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

Valentina Tereshkova

#2. True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.

Nancy Kress

#4. The VW doesn't make you think of Hitler and genocide. It's a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream.

Rachel Kushner

#5. By their garbage shall ye know them," Christie yells, like a preacher, a downy preacher. "I swear, by the ridge of tears and by the valour of my ancestors, I say unto you, Morag Gunn, lass, that by their bloody goddamn fucking garbage shall ye christly well know them.

Margaret Laurence

#6. Perhaps Aquinas's notably soft line on gluttony may have had something to do with the fact that the saint was said to have had what today we might call a weight problem.

Francine Prose

#7. She clearly had some deep scars and should be easy to walk away from, but instead of running the other direction I wanted to scoop her up, clean her off and make her world good again.

Beth Ehemann

#8. I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that.

Steven Spielberg

#9. The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man ... [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.
(A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.)

Thomas Jefferson

#10. A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others.

Konosuke Matsushita

#11. And I'm not a poet: but never despair!
I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.

Aldous Huxley

#12. There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

Antonio Tabucchi

#13. There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

Muriel Rukeyser

#14. No one really knows how it is with anyone else. That's the truth. That's our only real retaliation when the gossip starts to churn.

Paula McLain