Moturi Washington Quotes

#1. The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.

Pankaj Mishra

#2. Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes.

Allen Lacy

#3. If Churchill recommends optimism, who are you or I to quibble?

Anthony Weston

#4. I think it is important for someone like me to not run away from who I am but embrace it. LGBT people across the country need to know they have a friend in Congress.

Mark Takano

#5. I was a well-educated young lady from Boston with a thirst for bohemian counterculture and no clear plan. But I had no idea what to do with all my pent-up longing for adventure, or how to make my eagerness to take risks productive.

Piper Kerman

#6. She could not bring herself to turn away from the night sky, for the stars and the blackness were the only escape she had when old faded memories returned to haunt her.

Narayan Liu

#7. Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so.

Steven D. Levitt

#8. I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

Antonio Tabucchi

#9. We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons.

Sara Zarr

#10. Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung up with being somebody or other. Rather than just going, just spurting, just creating.

Patti Smith