Alfred Kidder Quotes & Sayings

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one. — Joe Elliott

He'd stepped on something. He took a step back and knelt and parted the grass with his hands. It was an apple. He picked it up and held it to the light. Hard and brown and shriveled. He wiped it with the cloth and bit into it. Dry and almost tasteless. But an apple. He ate it entire, seeds and all. He held the stem between his thumb and forefinger and let it drop. Then he went treading softly through the grass. His feet still wrapped in the remnants of the coat and the shreds of tarp and he sat and untied them and stuffed the wrappings in his pocket and went down the rows barefoot. By the time he got to the bottom of the orchard he had four more apples and he put them in his pocket and came back. — Cormac McCarthy

I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to win that which is great, you must first win that which is small. — James Frey

California, here I come, right back where I started from. — Al Jolson

I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star. — Ed Begley Jr.

Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones. The results were catastrophic. — Annalee Newitz

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion. — Dalai Lama XIV

None of this represented the glorious next stage of human evolution, but I was learning things. I was moving up. — Robin Sloan

People say I'm a feminist, but in truth, I am an equalist. I believe that everyone, male and female, should be free to be whom and what they are. Not to fit into some tight cultural box. — Laurell K. Hamilton