Tearsa Smith Quotes

#1. And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

Pat Robertson

#2. my joy. That was a great day in my life! Your time is too valuable to worry about pleasing everyone else or making them happy. I know people who spend more time worrying about what others think about them than they do focusing on their own dreams and goals. You've got to get free from that.

Joel Osteen

#3. A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country. You can put city polish on a man, but by golly, it seems you can't ever rub it off him.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#4. Hell and confusion light upon their heads.

Christopher Marlowe

#5. Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

Marty Meehan

#6. I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don't think has anything to do with fiction.

Ned Beauman

#7. Actions are what shape our reality; words are empty without them.

Cathryn Louis

#8. Writers should provoke disagreement.

V.S. Naipaul

#9. She told you something?"
"Yes. You're evil."
His brows shot up. "That's news?

Kelley Armstrong

#10. Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.

Harvey Weinstein

#11. To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.

Rob Pike

#12. When I stepped away from the white pine, I had the definite feeling that we had exchanged some form of life energy ... Clearly white pines and I are on the same wavelength. What I give back to the trees I cannot imagine. I hope they receive something, because trees are among my closest friends.

Anne LaBastille

#13. Everything is blood and vines. The mark of another day of revolving the body exact And the sky is ours our hope our blue our silence our throat of burning wildflowers.

Gwen Calvo

#14. Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic.

Kadir Nelson

#15. I try to find my deepest, often hidden feelings about what's working and what's not. This is difficult because I do lie to myself without being aware that that's what I'm doing.

Cynthia Kadohata