Quotes About Being Active Participants

#1. I think respectful conflict is intrinsic to the spirit of literature. It reminds us that literary history is living and evolving and thrives on us being active participants.

Matthew Pearl

#2. I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.

Lisa Yuskavage

#3. If Palestine had been invaded by Buddhists, or post-Ottoman Turkey, resistance would have been just as strong.

Anonymous

#4. The idea of the writer/producer in television is much younger than people think it is.

Matt Nix

#5. the stairwell and into the room where I will decide the rest of my life. The room is arranged in concentric circles. On the edges stand the sixteen-year-olds

Veronica Roth

#6. We must persuade Iran not t have nuclear weapons through peaceful and diplomatic means. We want a peaceful planet.

Mitt Romney

#7. She was skinny, like a salted anchovy, she gave off an odor of wildness, she had a long face, narrow at the temples, framed by two bands of smooth black hair. But

Elena Ferrante

#8. I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.

Michael Scheuer

#9. As individuals, we have very little say about how our data is being used. I'm not worried about the privacy implications of it so much. But it seems to me that, as an individual, if I'm the one generating the data, I should have some kind of say in how it's going to be used.

Rick Smolan