Umetani Kenji Quotes

#1. I graduated from my Master of Fine Arts program for writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Of course, for a master's program, you have to do a ton of reading. I would get up, usually around 5:30, to do my reading; otherwise, I would fall behind.

Lisa Papademetriou

#2. But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else.

Susan Sontag

#3. I have permission to live off campus. She didn't say from whom, because it was primarily herself.

Rachel Caine

#4. No person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.

Alice Walker

#5. Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

L.M. Montgomery

#6. Man is rotten with perfection.

Kenneth Burke

#7. I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

Aaron Neville

#8. Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the appearance of branch-like structures both in coral and in plants, and indeed in some forms of crystal and in certain chemical precipitates.

Sigmund Freud

#9. Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

George W. Bush

#10. Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

#12. On 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' we started exploring shots that are longer, where the camera is moving around the actors, and there are no cuts, and you feel like you're there.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#13. But when you're dying you don't have much time for common sense.

Terry Brooks

#14. Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother's garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.

Lauren DeStefano