Cyndia Sieden Quotes & Sayings

Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency. — Ben Bernanke

America, you know, they always separate people because of race. They've been able to convince, 'The niggers are coming.' You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people. Not only because there are more mixes of people, but because people are more open-minded about each other. So I think in the future, America has a great, great opportunity, and mostly because of hip-hop. — Russell Simmons

I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road. — Linda Sue Park

I live for freedom, and freedom is a lie. — Shakira

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. — Isaac Newton

If there are those you love, whoever or wherever you are, hold them. Find them and hold them as tightly as you can. Resist their squirming and impatience and uncomfortable laughter, and just feel their heart throbbing against yours. Give thanks that for this moment, for this one precious moment, they are here, they are with you, and they know they are utterly, completely, entirely loved. — Vanessa Woods

There are enough fatalities of a mundane sort. Find a quiet place and wait for one of them to carry you off. — Thomas Ligotti

Um ... I guess that's that," said Cerise. "That?" said Maddie. "That is never that. This is that. Or else that is this. And this is definitely not that. So let's go to the dance. — Shannon Hale

I am the Wizard of Oz of housewives (in that I am both "Great and Terrible" and because I sometimes hide behind the curtains — Jenny Lawson

But then my lower lip started trembling and a fog of sadness rose through my chest and head, emerging as tears. — Camille Pagan

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said. — Dale Carnegie

The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal but at the same time be a little overfull - to encourage them to do a kind of poetic work. — George Saunders

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m. — Michael East