389th Quotes & Sayings

It's exciting to see things coming up again, plants that you've had twenty or thirty years. It's like seeing an old friend. — Tasha Tudor

Gytha Ogg, you wouldn't be a witch if you couldn't jump to conclusions, right?" Nanny nodded. "Oh, yes." There was no shame in it. Sometimes there wasn't time to do anything else but take a flying leap. Sometimes you had to trust to experience and intuition and general awareness and take a running jump. Nanny herself could clear quite a tall conclusion from a standing start. — Terry Pratchett

I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this. — William Boyd

There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback. — Nate Powell

My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time. — Marc Maron

To get a movie star, you have to give them two hours of screen time. — Patricia Riggen

You make the rarest canvas, love — Madeline Miller

There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi Arabia. The other is that it's a transitional resource to a low-carbon economy, and to regard it as anything else is to drain the continent's financial resources. — Andrew Nikiforuk

Time doesn't stop or give warning. It simply ticks along, marking time, ignoring humanity. — Amy Harmon

Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust. — Michael Novak

People want view of beauty. Pfft. I say, do not give me lies. — Carolyn Crane

It is the rarest of qualities: to feel something - anything - for someone beside yourself. And in my experience it is rarer still to have empathy for people you don't know. — Francine Prose

I don't give any gifts to the rich. — Nicolas Sarkozy

We need strong school board members who know right from wrong. The Bible, being the only true source of right and wrong, should be the guide of board members. Only godly Christians can truly qualify for this critically important position ... — Robert Simonds