Quotes & Sayings About Being The Luckiest Girl In The World

We are all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life." Tennessee Williams — Anton War

I'm heartened by the growing awareness of global warming among important communities and organizations in our nation. — Jim Clyburn

But it was such a calming silence; it made me relax and feel closer to him than any heart-to-heart would have. — Gayle Forman

I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part of this. I felt responsible but also connected and empathetic. It was a very complicated relationship we had, whichever side you were on. The shock of being there was very few people my own age - I was primarily in the North in the streets of Hanoi. A whole generation was essentially decimated. — Anne Waldman

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do. — Hillary Clinton

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not. — Sheldon Richman

I think you can perform any poem. But what I believe is that the best examples of spoken word poetry I've ever seen, are spoken word poems that, when you see them, you're aware of the fact they need to be performed. That there's something about that poem that you would not be able to understand if you were just reading it on a piece of paper. — Sarah Kay

People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out ecommerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications. Think of each website as an application, and every single click, every single interaction with that site, is an opportunity to be on the very latest version of that application. — Marc Andreessen

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject. — David Maraniss