Unsoftened Quotes

#1. He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.

Mary Shelley

#2. It's always a better choice to write a new book than it is to keep pounding your head against the submissions wall with a book that's just not happening. The next book you write could be the book, the one that isn't a fight to get representation for at all.

Diana Peterfreund

#3. Wisely, Baldwin insisted that we are always more than our pain. Not only did he believe in our capacity to love, he felt black people were uniquely situated to risk loving because we had suffered.

Bell Hooks

#4. I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.

Gloria Steinem

#5. I didn't worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger.

Steve Martin

#6. I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

Irene Rosenfeld

#7. Our source of power is in the risen Christ, and we stay connected to Him by beholding Him in His Word and depending on Him in prayer.

Jerry Bridges

#8. Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

Bob Dylan

#9. Surrender is the only path to supernatural living.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#10. An easy way to find your own style is to exaggerate yourself a bit and then find a balance.

Johan Lindeberg

#11. Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.

Kate Winslet

#12. Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

George Bernard Shaw

#13. The ideal of toleration sounds like a formal condition allowing all flowers to bloom, but it turns out on examination to adumbrate a determinate form of life no less intrusive than the Sharia or "fundamentalist" Christianity.

Kenneth Minogue

#14. There are two separate scripts for 'Mockingjay' parts one and two. It's definitely one story, but there are two totally distinct and separate scripts.

Francis Lawrence

#15. Why are you so anxious to destroy in the name of a vulgar, commonplace sense of truth, this reality which comes to birth attracted and formed by the magic of the stage itself, which has indeed more right to live here than you, since it is much truer than you
if you don't mind my saying so?

Luigi Pirandello