Walter Greenwood Quotes

#1. The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.

Joel Salatin

#2. The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm; At night the wind died and the soft rain dropped; With lulling murmur, and the air was warm, And all the tumult and the trouble stopped.

Celia Thaxter

#3. Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself [if I got married before they could].

Charlize Theron

#4. Most people don't have poisonous tap water in their house.

Jenny Lawson

#5. Altogether, a pleasant place, marred by activities of unpleasant people whose qualities, perhaps, are sad reflections of sadder environments.

Walter Greenwood

#6. Books don't just go with you, they take you where you've never been.

Anonymous

#7. I don't need to be liked.

John Malkovich

#8. Rob Mullins is headed for status as an international celebrity.

Leonard Feather

#9. We do not live in a world of things
but among benedictions given
and--do you know what I'm saying?--received.

Irving Feldman

#10. I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.

Nnedi Okorafor

#11. Every time the light turns green, stay in the thick of competition.

Don Garlits

#12. For twenty years and more the whole planet had been bombed, raped, ravaged, and gouged by people whose fury had so exceeded their judgment that the only thing they could think of to do to express their discontent was to kill somebody.

Frederik Pohl

#13. When we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others. ... We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals: ourselves.

Amy Cuddy

#14. Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do something else while I think things through. But I do it every day, and I try to treat it as a job, something that is not dictated by whimsy or muses.

Adam Mansbach

#15. Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

Francois Mauriac

#16. I don't know why or how he expected total compliance from us women. I mean, were their women that intimidated that they did everything they were told? Well, wakeup call from Earth. We do not bow to anyone.

T.J. Yelden