Lingard Quotes

#1. curricular: they occur outside his playing remit. This is Lingard of the social media meme, the dab-dance

Andrew Kirby

#2. You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.

Buffalo Bill

#3. I find Edinburgh a stimulating place in which to live, with it being a city of contrasts, both architecturally and socially, and each district having a definite character.

Joan Lingard

#4. Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.

Stephen King

#5. Do you know there are at least seven ways to view Niagara Falls ... one of the natural wonders of the world?

Joan Lingard

#6. If a bomb has your name on it, you are dead whatever you do; and if not, it will miss you.

James Lingard

#7. If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it was forced on our country by a sinister international organization.

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and, in this way, push out the boundaries of our own lifes.

Joan Lingard

#9. Whether tales are told by the light of a campfire or by the glow of a screen, the prime decision for the teller has always been what to reveal and what to withhold. Whether in alone or with images, the narrator should be clear about what is to be shown and what is to be hidden.

Dave Gibbons

#10. I lived in Texas for 10 years.

John Hawkes

#11. I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

Joan Lingard

#12. Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.

Lauren DeStefano

#13. The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

Plato

#14. The 325-foot Seagram Tower is the most southerly and closest to the Canadian falls and also affords the best view of the churning upper rapids of the Niagara river.

Joan Lingard

#15. Whoever had invented long division has a lot to answer for.

Joan Lingard

#16. Mollie Hunter was both a great friend and a very fine writer for children. She was fascinated by Scotland's history and its folklore - almost all her novels reflect her tremendous knowledge of both.

Joan Lingard

#17. If I had stayed in Belfast, my life there wouldn't have as easy as it was in Scotland. I see the strain on the people who stayed. Always worrying about the safety of their children.

Joan Lingard

#18. Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.

Jim Steranko

#19. When writing about Edinburgh, I place my characters in the parts of the city that I myself have lived in, or else know well, those being the Southside, Marchmont in particular, where I lived as a student, and the New Town/Stockbridge area where I live now and have done for the past 30 years.

Joan Lingard

#20. Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of the story you're writing. But the real key to success lies in finding the right characters to carry that story.

Joan Lingard

#21. Whatever happens we mustn't forget how to laugh

Joan Lingard

#22. Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength.

Libba Bray

#23. The skylines of Buffalo, New York, and Toronto, Ontario, some 40 miles away, can be seen from the eight observation areas of the Seagram Tower.

Joan Lingard

#24. You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

James Wolfe

#25. We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives.

Mary Kay Ash

#26. The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.

Francis Chan

#27. I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

Joan Lingard

#28. Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

Joan Lingard