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american-author good graceful pleased writers-and-writing
The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway. Jack Vance
american-author films services sort stick
Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me. Kevin Williamson
american-author certainly changed exterior growing safe
The exterior circumstances have certainly changed for many children. The world is not the safe place it was when I was growing up. Beverly Cleary
american-author empowered men women
Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished. John Gray
american-author creating ethanol five four gasoline might percent within
Within four or five years the US might be getting 10 percent of its gasoline from ethanol - that would be like creating a new Indonesia. Daniel Yergin
american-author fine house planet tolerable
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau
american-author best life love man woman
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. Zane Grey
american-author countless wrote
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times. Jack Vance
american-author boy
Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl. Dick Bruna
bicycle ready stop turn
When the car's getting ready to turn at the first stop light, the bicycle will have already made it to the first stop. Dekova Batey
bicycle cycling downtown gone gotten hundred information lots requests several
We've gone from 50 to 60 bicycle commuters Downtown in 2002 to several hundred in 2005. We've also gotten lots more requests for information on cycling in the city. David Hoffman
communication law evil
In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power. Baruch Spinoza
communication science evil
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. Benjamin Banneker
communication writing garden
everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden. Brenda Ueland
communication machines information
Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes. Daniel H. Wilson
communication form hope music
I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people. Kenny G
communication life-is conversation
Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations. Deborah Tannen
communication female males
Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication Deborah Tannen
communication shortage
We have a shortage of communication with the district. Karen Johnson
communication writing winter
To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about. Edward Abbey
improvement marginal quarter second
The second quarter should see a marginal improvement. James Kim
improve looking personally school
School is grade-motivated: You're looking for the A. This is personally motivated: How you can improve yourself. David Johnson
improvement mastery seen year
I've seen a lot of improvement. This year she has a better mastery of her pitches. Jeff Malloy
improve players shows striving time tough weekend win
This going to be a tough weekend but the players are striving to improve all the time and a win is possible. It just shows that the players want to keep on growing. Scott Murray
improvement invention made
All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product. Jared Diamond
improved life quality
We have improved the quality of life for so many people. Shirley Pogue
improve week
Each week, get better, ... Each week just get improve on what I need to improve on. Each week to get wins. Patrick Crayton
improve ready shows
This shows us what we need to improve on and what we need to get better at. That game's over. We have to be ready for (today). Zach Malvik
improvement
We're disappointed this couldn't be better, ... this is a substantial improvement over what we started with. Tom Daschle
quality mines
I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine. Bob Dylan
quality humans human-beings
The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage Dennis Prager
quality details
Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality Dieter Rams
quality female deceit
Wiles and deceit are female qualities. Aeschylus
quality modernity transient
Modernity is the most transient of qualities. Anthony Daniels
quality determine
Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life. Andy Stanley
quality sincerity giver
The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver. Ann Patchett
quality ongoing shame
There's an obsessive quality to it that I thought I would've grown out of by now. It's an ongoing source of shame for me. Anne Hathaway
quality clients elementals
I've never studied the Japanese. That's something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem to like the elemental quality. Andrew Wyeth
rapidly
I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake. Betsy Beers
riding wave
I think in the end, we were fair. He was riding a wave that overtook him. I don't think that was our fault. Howard Fineman
riding
I'm not going to be nervous, it's just like riding a bike, Joey Graham
skills long honor
Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill. Brian Jacques
skills ambitious movement
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill. Diane Cilento
skills president next
Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require. Artur Davis
skills want towns
Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right? Brian Van Holt
skills territory needs
To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment. Eckhart Tolle
skills people long
The best way to create and bring dependent voters in is to bring people that don't have much education and therefore do not have many skills and therefore are not as capable as others of providing for themselves. That's the gold standard in immigration, if you're a Democrat in 2016, 2002, 2000, as long as this current debate has been raging, that's their objective. Rush Limbaugh
skills careers secret
Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn Stephen Hawking
skills people want
If you want the truth to prevail, you must cause people to realize the truth. This requires much more skill than is required to simply tell it. Roy H. Williams
skills imagination asking
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core. Sugata Mitra
willing
Don't hope more than you're willing to work. Rita Mae Brown
willing
Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you. Nikki Sixx
willing
I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then. Steve Kroft
willing
It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are. Loretta Lynch
work
I've matured. I think I work better with the team. Kristin Baker
worked
I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features. James Marsh
work
I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct. Amanda Hale
work
This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on. Luis Castillo
worked
That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork. Bryson Sumlin
work-out should harder
The harder you work out, the more you should stretch. Jane Fonda
work writers
Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work. Kent McCord
work
You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard. LaMarr Woodley
work
I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing. Kathryn Harrison