Rakitin Quotes

#1. Rakitin was dishonest and was decidedly unaware of it; that, on the contrary, knowing that he wouldn't steal money from the table, he ultimately considered himself a man of the highest integrity.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Anais Nin

#3. It's time for us to keep better track of our livestock as they cross borders.

Collin C. Peterson

#4. A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

Betty Friedan

#5. If I'd learned anuthing about scars from Graham's novels, it was that they, too, could be beautiful.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#6. I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

Ed Bradley

#7. I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Robert Kennedy

#8. When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

Tracy Kidder

#9. I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

Stanley Hauerwas

#10. i was poised for greatness, but the poising game me a cramp so i have instead just settled for comfortable mediocrity... (Vimrod # 4904)

Ralph Lazar