Abroms James Quotes & Sayings

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject. — Kurt Loder

Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous ... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky. — Michael Frayn

Do you know how does it feel failing every day?
No,
You get used to it. — M.F. Moonzajer

Clara Morrow had painted Ruth as the elderly, forgotten Virgin Mary. Angry, demented, the Ruth in the portrait was full of despair, of bitterness. Of a life left behind, of opportunities squandered, of loss and betrayals real and imagined and created and caused. She clutched at a rough blue shawl with emaciated hands. The shawl had slipped off one bony shoulder and the skin was sagging, like something nailed up and empty.
And yet the portrait was radiant, filling the room from one tiny point of light. In her eyes. Embittered, mad Ruth stared into the distance, at something very far off, approaching. More imagined than real.
Hope.
Clara had captured the moment despair turned to hope. The moment life began. She'd somehow captured Grace. — Louise Penny

Turn your talent loose with room to run. Talent wants to romp and play. — Jay Perry

Faith had given up on the whole one-day-my-prince-will-come romantic bullshit — Amy Andrews

It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page. — Laurell K. Hamilton

That's because, if correct, a mathematical formula expresses an eternal truth about the universe. Hence no one can claim ownership of it; it is ours to share. Rich or poor, black or white, young or old - no one can take these formulas away from us. Nothing in this world is so profound and elegant, and yet so available to all. — Edward Frenkel

In Morocco," said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell. — Tahir Shah

Marco Polo dictated his Travels in French, — Barbara W. Tuchman