Christianne Allen Quotes & Sayings

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole. — Bell Hooks

There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how. — Walt Disney

The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys. — Salvador De Madariaga

All ceremony depends on symbol; and all symbols have been vulgarized and made stale by the commercial conditions of our time...Of all these faded and falsified symbols, the most melancholy example is the ancient symbol of the flame. In every civilized age and country, it has been a natural thing to talk of some great festival on which "the town was illuminated." There is no meaning nowadays in saying the town was illuminated...The whole town is illuminated already, but not for noble things. It is illuminated solely to insist on the immense importance of trivial and material things, blazoned from motives entirely mercenary...It has not destroyed the difference between light and darkness, but it has allowed the lesser light to put out the greater...Our streets are in a permanent dazzle, and our minds in a permanent darkness. — G.K. Chesterton

he appeared to have run out of shits to give sometime in the previous century. Today, — Ernest Cline

I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so I grew up feeling very comfortable around books. Also, Ireland is a country which has honoured its writers and poets, so when someone says they wanted to be a writer, its not mocked or looked down upon. — Michael Scott

In indolent vacuity of thought. — William Cowper

Finding a positive motivation also engages your emotional brain to work for the change, not against it. Remember, it wants to go toward pleasure. So the more emotionally pleasurable your positive motivation, the more it will help you achieve your goal. — M.J. Ryan

The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice. — Julio Cortazar

Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no! — Viola Davis

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences
even if you're right. — Buffy Andrews

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV. — Marissa Mayer