Brusque Def Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to teach Pakistani's children to think like Americans...I just want them to have a balanced, non-extremist education — Greg Mortenson

I'm kind of interested in learning to learn and grow and challenge myself. I think I've been very fortunate in that my books are pretty different from one novel to the next. There's a lot of things that are similar but in terms of tone and the scale and how they interact with history and just the different styles as well. — Joe Meno

It's not our talents that make us safe or dangerous, it's our choices. — Josephine Angelini

When they write a bad review, and you agree with it, that's the worst feeling. When you know you've done what you wanted and the best you could and you love the outcome, then you look at everything differently. Not everyone's going to love everything you do. — Albert Hammond Jr.

Ruth once wrote, "Dear Journal, Never let a single day pass without saying an encouraging word to each child . . .'More people fail for lack of encouragement,' someone wrote, 'than for any other reason. — Billy Graham

If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling. — Nancy Kress

The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain. — Winston Churchill

World. When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force. — Paulo Coelho

The suggestion that the prime minister had been flirting with one of the senior women cabinet ministers made me laugh every time I saw it, and I thought, "if you only knew!" Perhaps they should have pushed it a bit harder. — Edwina Currie

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive. — Marya Hornbacher

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen. — Yoko Ono

I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a green great dragon', but had to say 'a great green dragon'. I wondered why, and still do. The fact that I remember this is possibly significant, as I do not think I ever tried to write a story again for many years, and was taken up with language. — J.R.R. Tolkien