William Trotter Quotes

#1. A diary means yes indeed.

Gertrude Stein

#2. It's a kind of de-familiarization in relation to the song: if she were to sing absolutely straight, right on the beat, because of the richness and intensity of her instrument - her voice - I think it could actually feel a little inhuman, too good somehow, separate from our concerns.

Matthew Zapruder

#3. Life is enough grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Life itself is the most prolific and extraordinary author that there is.

Ben Tolosa

#5. When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.

Matana Roberts

#6. The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.

David Hewson

#7. My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.

William O. Douglas

#8. But if life is what can be called the time you spend preparing for the event, and then dealing with how the event went, then what would you call the event itself? Is that not life? Is that not the best part?

Meg Howrey

#9. He was a noble man, as well as a nobleman." * "Mannerheim did not grow up among the masses, but in a castle.... he was a cosmopolite in the age of nationalism; an aristocrat in the age of democracy; a conservative in the age of revolutions."t

William R. Trotter

#10. In 50 years, the world has changed, especially for kids, but kids' needs haven't changed. They still need to feel safe, be close to their families, like their teachers, and have friends to play with.

Beverly Cleary

#11. One Soviet general, looking at a map of the territory Russia had acquired on the Karelian Isthmus, is said to have remarked: "We have won just about enough ground to bury our dead

William R. Trotter

#12. On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing.

Neil Gaiman