Suzanne Steele Musings Quotes

#1. The major distinction between the indefinite article, a, and the definite article, the.6 When a character makes his first appearance on stage, he is introduced with a. When we are subsequently told about him, we already know who he is, and he is mentioned with the:

Steven Pinker

#2. I don't want to sing songs that aren't worth while. Time is so rare. I just don't want to waste the listener's time and I think that my songs don't do that. That's what I pray for. I want songs that really touch people's hearts.

Rodney Atkins

#3. A book is the one place you're permitted to feel emotion; anywhere else you're expected to be professional.
And you ask me why I like to read...

Suzanne Steele

#4. A happy reader is a sane reader
an unhappy one
well...not so much.

Suzanne Steele

#5. When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Maya Angelou

#6. One sort of glib explanation I heard once was that Rhetors could change the past, and were glad to do it, but Incanters could change the future - and were reluctant.

Neal Stephenson

#7. You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

Rudyard Kipling

#8. He told me once about the secret of life. You know what it is?" "I'm not sure what George thinks it is." "It's having lunch with friends.

Jack McDevitt

#9. To spend time observing, without drawing, thinking, without drawing, or feeling, without drawing, is the misfortune of nonartists.

Nick Meglin

#10. Readers are smart and they know how to read more than just a book; they know how to read their authors.

Suzanne Steele

#11. A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fairy. She's the pin-up girl of fairies. She's the ultimate fairy, but she's also got a mischievous spirit and she's very strong-willed. I think a lot of youngsters recognize themselves in Tinker Bell.

Michael Sheen

#12. Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried.

Rosamund Hodge

#13. When I write...
I open a vein and bleed for the masses
It's all I know...

Suzanne Steele

#14. I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.

Terry Bradshaw