Michaelann Board Quotes

#1. Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs [the basics], but the more you garden, the more you'll learn what works and what doesn't.

Barbara Damrosch

#2. Real love doesn't disappear. It can turn into hate, and hate can turn into love, but those feelings won't ever turn into indifference." She

L.J. Shen

#3. Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.

Andrew Vachss

#4. As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.

Ian McEwan

#5. Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

William Hurt

#6. When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing

Stephenie Meyer

#7. I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. You can't dread what you can't experience. The only death we experience is that of other people. That's as bad as it gets. And that's bad enough, surely.

Tom Rachman

#9. I want to be Tragedy, I want to be Juliet, I want to be Romeo. Thus with a kiss I die.

Lee Smith

#10. Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark ... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
[Still in Melbourne January 1987]

Germaine Greer

#11. The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.

Bill Maher

#12. We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.

Ellen Ochoa

#13. Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#14. Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.

Louis Stokes

#15. He stepped around Tamlin as if he were a piece of furniture and took my hand.

Sarah J. Maas