Personalizing Wood Quotes

#1. The aircraft found the ground before Teddy did and he watched as it exploded in a glittery starburst of light. He would live, he realized. There would be an afterward after all. He gave thanks to whichever god had stepped in to save him.

Kate Atkinson

#2. I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it.

Vanessa Bayer

#3. It can stand in the way of narration in cases where we want the protagonist to actually go through some kind of catharsis while our own (non-fictional) experiences and stories lead to something banal or completely uninteresting.

Sasa Stanisic

#4. At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

Dee Dee Warwick

#5. I am never proud to participate in violence, yet, I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves, that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.

Maya Angelou

#6. We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action.

Daniel Kahneman

#7. Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories.

Bobby Womack

#8. Somebody said on television, somebody said last night on television: Nobody has gotten rich betting against Donald Trump. That's in my lifetime. That's not just for this election cycle. I went in, and people said: "He's not gonna run." I've gone through this with you.

Donald Trump

#9. One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

Edward M. Lerner

#10. We are all historians in our small way.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. I don't like to trash talk ... I don't know how to do that, it's not me. In the martial arts world that I was brought up it was all about respect.

Uriah Hall

#12. Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.

William Loughton Smith

#13. Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.

Corinne Maier

#14. It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Marcel Proust

#15. When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

Beck