Arjomand Madadshahi Quotes & Sayings

Beginning writers are often advised to 'write what you know,' and since I knew about quilters - their quirks, their inside jokes, their disputes and their generosity, their quarrels and their kindnesses - the lives of quilters became a natural subject for me. Quilting wove together my two themes as completely and effortlessly as I could have hoped. — Jennifer Chiaverini

Confession and repentance might be described as the negative side of submission; this involves getting rid of everything which hinders God's control over our lives. Yielding to God might be described as the positive side ... placing ourselves totally into the hands of God. — Billy Graham

I'm very open to dating and finding a guy. — Kristin Cavallari

I suppose ... my experience with organized faith of any stripe is somewhat stilted, Baisyl admitted. 'As far as my eyes have seen, it's a conglomeration of power-hungry men who self-appoint themselves the sole dictators of how others should live their lives in order to best please forces far beyond their control.. — Anihyr Moonstar

Picture what others wish to be, not what they may be now — Claude C. Hopkins

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? — Milan Kundera

I need him, Marion - I need him. — J. Tullos Hennig

Long ago, I realized that my only talent - aside from the rugged good looks, of course, and the strange power I hold over elderly women - can be reduced to a single word: doggedness. — Michael Dirda

At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat. — William Lyon Phelps

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. — Ralph Nader

The first boy said, "I bring you gold." The second boy said, "I bring you myrrh." The third boy said, "Frank sent this. — Ken Robinson

You can either hold onto your dream by letting go of your excuses or hold onto your excuses by letting go of your dream. — Orrin Woodward

You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office. — Jason Patric

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling. — Chester Brown