Melodee Lenz Quotes

#1. A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

Edward Albee

#2. Like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognize danger, you alone are the only one clever enough ...

J.K. Rowling

#3. The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.

Nicholas Kristof

#4. He gave me a tight, triumphant smile and walked away.
My anger got the best of me. "You're an immature idiot!"
"I could give a fuck, Shortcake," he threw back at me. "And you started it.

Samantha Young

#5. Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

Al Pacino

#6. We don't really have any that protect the food supply from farm to table. We have a food safety system that's piecemeal, largely divided between two agencies that don't talk to each other very much. Neither agency can enforce regulations from the farm to the table.

Marion Nestle

#7. In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.' It's an aggressive, even a hostile act.

Joan Didion

#8. When guys in camouflage pants and hunting hats sat around in the Four Aces Diner talking about fearsome things done out-of-doors, I would no longer have to feel like such a cupcake.

Bill Bryson

#9. Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.

Charlie Munger

#10. Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

Skitch Henderson

#12. Love ice cream. I let myself have that about once a week. Vanilla.

Tim Tebow

#13. Asking is the first level of prayer.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. The universe stands aside for those people who know where they are going ...

Paulo Coelho

#15. I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

Anne Rice