All Quotes

In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.
‐‐ Mark Sanford

In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special genre.
‐‐ Genesis Rodriguez

In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we are. We do not talk about the spirit or the soul, and there is a sense that we no longer talk about beliefs, either Freudian or Marxist.
‐‐ A. S. Byatt

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.
‐‐ Jerry Kramer

In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.
‐‐ Cynthia McKinney

In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege American investors.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed by a missile exchange for a couple of weeks in both directions.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.
‐‐ Janis Karpinski

In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.
‐‐ Dexter Gordon

In Nueva Esperanza, Honduras, community members pooled their resources and organized a local water committee that with CARE's technical guidance built a gravity-fed water system that now provides clean water directly to people's homes.
‐‐ Helene D. Gayle

In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.
‐‐ John Madden

In Obama's case, we've enabled affirmative action to find a home in the nation's highest office. There you have it. I said it and I stand by it. America fell for the gimmick candidate, disregarding every fact and warning sign in the rush to have 'the first African-American president.'
‐‐ Allen West

In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
‐‐ Yanis Varoufakis

In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes.
‐‐ Simon Newcomb

In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.
‐‐ J. R. R. Tolkien

In October 2008, American commandos launched a cross-border raid into Syria to capture an Islamic militant known as Abu Ghadiya. He was accused of being one of al Qaeda in Iraq's main smugglers of fighters and money between Iraq and Syria.
‐‐ Richard Engel

In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.
‐‐ Karen Mills

In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
‐‐ John Burroughs

In 'Off to War, Voices of Soldier's Children,' kids from Canada and the United States talk about what it is like when their mother or father goes off to war - and comes home again.
‐‐ Deborah Ellis

In Ohio, I built the world's first skate plaza.
‐‐ Rob Dyrdek

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.
‐‐ Colin Greenwood

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
‐‐ Knut Hamsun

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
‐‐ Carol P. Christ

In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's state of mind. You might have known someone who lived on the corner of Soul and Bitterness, Solitude and Hope, or Light and Avocado.
‐‐ Brin-Jonathan Butler

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.
‐‐ John Kricfalusi

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.
‐‐ Cole Porter

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
‐‐ Helen Rowland

In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,' the star was the writing and the storytelling, and the characters and the twists and the cleverness in the setup and payoff and execution.
‐‐ Josh Trank

In one aspect, my works record the history of the development of Chinese society. Concern about the situation of Chinese reality is one important theme of my works. I am trying to ask, 'How does our society develop? What are the problems in our society? Where is our direction leading?'
‐‐ Liu Bolin

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
‐‐ Alan Dean Foster

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
‐‐ Edgar Allan Poe

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
‐‐ Martha Beck

In one day, I got mistaken for three different actresses: Wendy Williams, Sherri Shepherd, and Star Jones.
‐‐ Niecy Nash

In one day, I have times where I'm feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I'm the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.
‐‐ Adam Sandler

In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.
‐‐ Agnes Smedley

In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.
‐‐ Dan Miller

In one month, the Small Business Administration does $1 billion of loans and guarantees for businesses; many of those are women-owned businesses.
‐‐ Sylvia Mathews Burwell

In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.
‐‐ Jack Canfield

In one of my songs, I say fame is nothing more than loving someone. So I'm grateful every day that there's so many fans of people out there that love my music and feel they're connected to me through that.
‐‐ Jason Mraz

In one respect, I like the freedom of using all the people that I love instead of being dictated by the studio to use the hot person of the moment.
‐‐ Amy Heckerling

In one respect, it's easier to open a restaurant in New York because you get more media attention than anywhere else. Almost everyone will try a new place once, irrespective of the reviews, because it's a spectator sport.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.
‐‐ Jill Abramson

In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.
‐‐ Nancy Kress

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.
‐‐ Susan Griffin

In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race.
‐‐ Sarah Churchwell

In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.
‐‐ Don Tapscott

In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.
‐‐ Nikki Grimes