Ann Bates Quotes & Sayings

If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet. — Nancy White

There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it. — Maxine Hong Kingston

Words can be said easily, but one can't fake actions. — Jewel

Some students are in a hurry to begin "real" pranayama. They go right to the later stages without first laying a quality foundation, and their practice often suffers. First find out what is. This is also part of the answer to the question Who am I? — Richard Rosen

Youthful dreams are precious things. They ought not to be dashed as foolish and unrealistic just because they are young dreams. Innocence ought not to be destroyed from any callous conviction that a realistic sort of cynicism is better. — Mary Balogh

The only circumstances in which I would write a roman a clef would be if I'd lost my fucking car keys. — Will Self

It is like choosing whether to cut off one's right hand or one's left hand. It is like having to decide whether to save your drowning mother, knowing that you may both drown, or swimming to shore alone, knowing that you can only save yourself. If that is your dilemma, which way is right? Which way would you choose? — Cara Chow

I always want to tell him everything. But
instead I said, "What's your advice, Horn -
meister?"
And he started doing pretend beard stroking
and said, "Well, luuurve is a many trousered
thing ... — Louise Rennison

Jerkish". That was the name of a language of 225 words, developed in Atlanta for mutual communications between humans and chimpanzees - and there was no doubt (...) that more and more unfortunate creatures would be able to talk to each other in jerkish. It occurred to me immediately that at last a language had been found in which the spirit of our age could speak, and because that language would spread rapidly from pole to pole, to the east and the west, it would be the language of the future. — Ivan Klima

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder — Rohinton Mistry

I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is. — Jimmy Carter

I work too hard and I love it too much. — Jen Calonita

And this is the origin of freewill, that Adam wished to be independent, [124] and dared to try what he was able to do. — John Calvin

My way has always worked. My way is what got me here. — Edgerrin James

Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an actor - because you get to create a persona that's bigger or better or more interesting than your own. — Bruce Davison