I'm always working on something new and while I'm working, I'm absorbed with my characters, their conflicts,my language and settings. I'm in… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
Canada is one of the few places left where the small decencies are observed. If, as a young man, I was scornful… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Bangkok 8 is one of the most startling and provocative mysteries that I've read in years. The characters are marvelously unique, the… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
... the random talk of people who have no chance of immortality and thus can speak their minds out has a setting,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Business is essentially applied rationality: a systematic process of thinking that produces a real-world result. Instead of mortgaging your life to go… — Josh Kaufman Copy Share Image
In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did… — Laura Lang Copy Share Image
They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“Setting out is always a leap of faith, a risk in the deepest sense of the term, and yet an adventure too.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Parents have to understand, that even if their child isn't showing athletic excellence in a certain sport, they still need to be… — Allyson Felix Copy Share Image
It's not what you know about the computer that's important, but your ability to do things with it. By studying French in… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London.… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Setting goals is a worthy endeavor. We know that our Heavenly Father has goals because He has told us that His work… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We had put our son into a little preschool in Los Angeles, and it was just not going well, so we brought… — Jodi Benson Copy Share Image
Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal.… — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
O little souls! as pure as white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Pirate Hunters is a fantastic book, an utterly engrossing and satisfying read. It tells the story of the hunt for the rare… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament, says, "From the rising of the sun to its setting, God's name shall be… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative.… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
A friend of mine asked me a question at the end of 2015. We were going over my finances and setting things… — Prince Fielder Copy Share Image
What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental… — Zachary Lazar Copy Share Image
When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
The Four Keys of Great Managers: When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination. When setting… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap.… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
