Patianne Stevenson Quotes

#1. Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work on a lot. I went to North Carolina School of the Arts; my speech teacher ... that was one of the things we really had to work on over the years, and thankfully I think it finally worked.

Chris Parnell

#2. The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. I often say television is not a job for grown men. You go to a set, they pick out your clothes for you, they tell you where to stand, what to say, and your chair has your name on it in case you can't find a place to sit.

Danny Bonaduce

#4. Brave love, dream
not of staunching such strict flame, but come,
lean to my wound; burn on, burn on.

Sylvia Plath

#5. The occasional bowl of bacon and beans (she couldn't shake the cravings from her time as a boy).

Soman Chainani

#6. The scope of it might have driven another man mad; it was to Kaleb's advantage that he'd had his brush with madness as a child and survived. Whether or not he was sane was another question.

Nalini Singh

#7. [I]n many ways nonsense is a more effective organizing tool than the truth. Anyone can believe in the truth. To believe in nonsense is an unforgeable demonstration of loyalty. It serves as a political uniform. And if you have a uniform, you have an army.

Mencius Moldbug

#8. Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#9. Bran could not take his eyes off the blood. The snows around the stump drank it eagerly, reddening as he watched.

George R R Martin

#10. The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

Ralph Nader

#11. I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

Rita Dove

#12. Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting it seem indecorous and abominable, he very often writes so well that you are loth to believe he could ever have written thus extremely ill.

William Ernest Henley

#13. Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

John Ortberg

#14. That's certainly the roots of heavy metal. That whole sense of revolution and wanting to be powerful is definetly a puberty thing. Fans don't have to be offended by that. Everybody goes through it. That's why heavy metal is so powerful.

Ian Christe

#15. Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part.

Richelle E. Goodrich