Unhandy Quotes

#1. Generally speaking, all true children's stories make promises to their readers. Here you are, they say, unhandy and short, and there is a big world that one day will be yours. Listen to how it happened for Cinderella once upon a time, and Jack with his beanstalk, and Aladdin with his lamp.

John Goldthwaite

#2. It has often been said that [ ... ] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.

Robert Reed

#3. I have never felt bereft of anything.

Ben Kingsley

#4. Leadership is more about purpose than it is about position.

Michele Jennae

#5. I'm sorry, what did you say? I'm not fluent in stupid drunk slut

Christine Zolendz

#6. I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!

Natalia Vodianova

#7. Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.

Florence King

#8. The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

Sophocles

#9. Impersonalize your problems, personalize your solutions.

Kamini Arichandran

#10. Well, I've never met an indexer any more than I've met a real writer. I'm impressed." Miss Finch's tone had changed, and she was suddenly leaning toward me, almost half over the counter. "Tell me, do you make any real money at this job, writing indexes for books?

Larry D. Sweazy

#11. If there aren't roles you want to play, then you've kind of got to create them.

Margot Robbie

#12. In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the slave trade or lynching, the instinct is to cover it up, to get rid of it, to destroy it.

Bryan Stevenson

#13. The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.

Twyla Tharp

#14. He had understood long ago that the past was no better than the present. That was as plain as day. One had to try to escape, to wrestle free from every era, so as not to be devoured by it.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

#15. I'm as pro-life as a person gets. You're not going to have a truce.

Paul Ryan