Minces Crossword Quotes

#1. If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles. If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 per cent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated.

George Orwell

#2. I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.

Anatole France

#3. How you manage yourself between those bright moments, when things aren't going so great, is a measure of how devoted you are to your vocation, and how equipped you are for the weird demands of creative living. Holding yourself together through all the phases of creation is where the real work lies.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. social violence. The message is, "I am not challenging you, I will do nothing bad, you do whatever you want and I will stay out of your way." This is exactly what a predator is looking for.

Rory Miller

#5. Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.

Emmitt Smith

#6. People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.

Madeleine L'Engle

#7. Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

Democritus

#8. I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.

Rei Kawakubo

#9. Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.

Art Spiegelman

#10. I'd rather not make films than make bad ones.

Scott Speedman

#11. Your love is just the antidote when nothing else can cure me.

Sarah McLachlan