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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.
american-author boy
Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl. Dick Bruna
god nobody thank
Thank God there was nobody in the pool. Steve Lewis
god thank
Thank God I couldn't see anything out there. Meryl Streep
god numerous people pray stage
I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence. Cam Newton
god
That's what she said she wanted to do, ... She said that God told her to do that.
god
That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical. Ted Nugent
god humorous acting
We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. If He is, nothing contrary to His will can occur; therefore when the sinner disobeys His commands, He must have intended this to happen. Bertrand Russell
god nearly
When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look. Kate Winslet
god baby children
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Carl Sandburg
god wisdom atheist
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. C. S. Lewis
levels obsession high-level
To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession. Conor McGregor
levels reaching talented women
Women are still not reaching the most senior levels of corporations. This is not the shortcoming of women. We're talented and smart.
levels may reader
Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader Claude C. Hopkins
levels comfort film
There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up. Daniel Radcliffe
levels entertainment affluence
There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else. Douglas Coupland
levels stuff today
What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
levels red grew
Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level. Anish Kapoor
levels silent fingers
The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level. Alfred Korzybski
levels problem consciousness
A problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs. Albert Einstein
metaphor program capacity
I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex. Seth Lloyd
metaphor
The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately. Gaston Bachelard
metaphor strain
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. Florence King
metaphor dictionary
The dictionary contains no metaphors. Paul Ricoeur
metaphor capacity full-life
One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life. Joseph Chilton Pearce
simple wish worthy
For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy. Brandon Sanderson
simple simplicity
The more simple we are, the more complete we become. Auguste Rodin
simple ideas usual
The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.' Ayelet Waldman
simple important spontaneous
The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things. Brian Tracy
simple glasses looks
Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle. Brad Goreski
simple names people
I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name. Jamie Farr
simple world ignored
The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t. Branch Rickey
simple brain needs
In my Corgan brain, I've decided it's almost as simple as 'All you need is love.' Almost. Billy Corgan
simple want able
If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.