Carrie Russell Baker Quotes & Sayings

If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with. — Andrew Young

No fiction can have real interest if the central character is not an agent struggling for his or her own goals but a victim, subject to the will of others. (Failure to recognize that the central character must act, not simply be acted upon, is the single most common mistake in the fiction of beginners.) — John Gardner

My favorite vegetable is the marshmallow. — Jim Gaffigan

In 1992, teachers all over the country, by the thousands, were beginning to teach the Columbus story in new ways, to recognize that to Native Americans, Columbus and his men were not heroes, but marauders. The point being not just to revise our view of past events, but to be provoked to think about today. — Howard Zinn

Girls would also join in, executing all the dance moves perfectly and — Nicholas Sparks

The M1A1 Abrams is like a shark, evolved to a point of absolute perfection. It is the undisputed king of the jungle. No other tank on earth can even begin to damage it. It is wrapped in armor made out of a depleted uranium core sandwiched between rolled steel plate. The armor is dense and impregnable. — Lee Child

I trained 8 hours a day 7 seven days a week and I had 2 weeks off in a year. — Julie Benz

In this world, the spots where the present seems to overlap the past are the most important. These are the points when one becomes aware that the direction of the world can change. — Mark Klett

A man both handsome and repulsive in equal measure-as if his good looks were plastered over a rotten centre, a hero's face with a henchman's heart. — Tom Rob Smith

His true intention becomes clear by the choice of people he interviewed: every one of them a conservative apologist! — Robert M. Price