Bartholdi Museum Quotes & Sayings

Let's see what you've got - as the actress said to the bishop, — Leslie Charteris

In short, a premise is any single image, moment, feeling, or belief that has enough power and personal meaning for the author to set her story on fire, and propel it like a rocket for hundreds of pages. — Donald Maass

Ted took to extremes an attitude we all had, that anyone in any sort of trouble was our responsibility. And part of our duty was to explain to anyone with any kind of a spark that life was a glorious adventure. Looking back I should imagine that of all the appallingly hard work we did, the only part of it that achieved anything was this personal proselytising. I doubt whether any of the people we took on will forget the sheer exuberance of our conviction in the gloriousness of life, for if we didn't have it by temperament we had it on principle. — Doris Lessing

At least when you were silent, you didn't make any new enemies. — V.C. Andrews

If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one. — Yotam Ottolenghi

It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference. — Ben Carson

I probably have mellowed down a bit. But when it comes to principles, I still have to make a stand. — Gordon Wu

Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out. — Thrity Umrigar

I'd ask [God] why he keeps trying to kill us all with disease, pestilence, and natural disasters. I'd ask why 99% of all species there ever were are now extinct
if God works in mysterious ways, that way is mysteriously genocidal. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Books are a time machine. — Jonathan Nolan

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. — James C. Collins

I'm 12 years sober, so I don't have beer! When I used to drink I really liked Bass Ale! — Kristin Davis

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted. — Rush Limbaugh