Annie Clark Tanner Lecture Quotes & Sayings

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men. — Sandra Cisneros

The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon — Ken Kesey

Some things you got to release. Gary said. The more you hold them in, the worse you get. When you release them, they got to go somewhere else. The Bible says He can carry all that burden. — Rebecca Skloot

For me, the most absorbing films are those that address big questions and real ideas but embody them in small examples that we can appreciate and comprehend. — Lisa Randall

The distance between you and everyone is love. — Debasish Mridha

Excuses are like backsides. Everybody's got one, and they all stink. — Becky Monson

I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. — Maya Angelou

I love New York. I love working here. — Margaret Cho

Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake. — E.W. Howe

He had imagined Constantinople, had wanted it for Mehmed. It had been simple and straightforward. But now he knew the true cost of things, the murky horrors of the distance between wanting something and getting it. — Kiersten White

The Work always leaves you with less of a story.
Who would you be without your story?
You never know until you inquire.
There is no story that is you or that leads to you.
Every story leads away from you.
Turn it around; undo it.
You are what exists before all stories.
You are what remains when the story is understood. — Byron Katie

Remembering is the only way to defeat the death. — David Albahari

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way. — Erik Erikson

More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Eddie's got a broken arm. Why did I lead them down here? Christ! Why did I? "Bill? " Ben said anxiously. — Stephen King