All Quotes

In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.
‐‐ Gloria Gaither

In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
‐‐ Ram Dass

In working with top leaders and thought philosophers of our time, I will tell you that among their secrets of success is a regular practice of acknowledging and appreciating what they have. It can offer an oracle into the future because it not only tells you where you are, but it also helps clarify where you want to go in life.
‐‐ Jack Canfield

In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.
‐‐ Carol Bellamy

In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.
‐‐ Simon Van Booy

In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform.
‐‐ Oliver North

In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.
‐‐ C. L. R. James

In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura

In wrestling, there is no retreat. No way to slow things down. In wrestling, you advance and advance, and being tired is just a lie to make the other guy think he can relax. It's so hard - harder than anything I've ever done.
‐‐ Channing Tatum

In wrestling, there's a shelf life, and some wrestlers don't pay attention to the shelf life.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
‐‐ Lady Gregory

In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity.
‐‐ Louis MacNeice

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
‐‐ L. Sprague de Camp

In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
‐‐ Rachel Joyce

In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
‐‐ Abraham Verghese

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
‐‐ Catherine Drinker Bowen

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.
‐‐ Miriam Toews

In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.
‐‐ Mitch Glazer

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.
‐‐ Brian P. Cleary

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.
‐‐ Peter Temple

In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
‐‐ Hal David

In writing, I try to find the right balance between momentum and infinity, truth and beauty.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.
‐‐ Jonathan Evison

In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.
‐‐ Kim Edwards

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
‐‐ Ian Anderson

In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling in the blanks.' Medieval chroniclers could be callously indifferent to the needs of future novelists. But I think there is a great difference between filling in the blanks and distorting known facts.
‐‐ Sharon Kay Penman

In writing non-fiction about people who are living, you are always walking a fine line, carrying a burden to be fair that, in my opinion, should always be there.
‐‐ Jonathan Coleman

In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself during the process of writing.
‐‐ Herta Muller

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
‐‐ Thomas Sydenham

In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the original script and add asides, soliloquys and even new scenes. The main characters all get a soliloquy or two - or in Luke's case, several.
‐‐ Ian Doescher

In Wyoming, the beauty of our mountains is matched only by the grit of our people.
‐‐ Liz Cheney

In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
‐‐ Natalie Jeremijenko

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know.
‐‐ Jami Attenberg

In your career, you must be so careful; otherwise, you get caught in a particular image, and it's hard to break.
‐‐ David Hedison

In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
‐‐ Taya Kyle

In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.
‐‐ Brian O'Driscoll

In your mid-30s, you have to take inventory, or you'll stumble.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
‐‐ Ethan Hawke

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. Set a standard, and stay faithful to it.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.
‐‐ John Niven

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
‐‐ Kate Bush

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
‐‐ Anthony J. D'Angelo

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.
‐‐ Jeremy Sisto