Donna Harvey Quotes & Sayings

I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable. That's the fun of it: discovering what's next. I'm often surprised by plot developments I would not have dreamed of starting out, but that, in the course of the writing, come to seem inevitable. — Susan Choi

No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp, — Stella Young

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it's to imagine what is possible. — Bell Hooks

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. — Samuel Johnson

I walk into the night forest. I reach out my hands on either side. I can feel the smooth bark of the Red Alder trees and the rough chasms of mature Douglas Fir, and then I can feel the stringy fibrous bark of the Western Red Cedar. I can push my fingers into the Cedar bark; it is like cloth to my fingertips. But here and there I can also feel the lacelike fingers of Hemlock and the prickly needles of Spruce touching my face and my neck. — Ned Hayes

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.' — Anne Sweeney

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies. — Ben Carson

You are free to think thoughts of worry or joy, and whatever you choose will attract the same kind back to you. Worry attracts worry. Joy attracts joy. — Rhonda Byrne

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself. — George Bernard Shaw

They no longer had any hope, but they had despair. Despair is a last weapon that sometimes brings victory; Virgil said so. — Victor Hugo

My heart went into triple time, like that burst you get when you realize the ball is going over the heads of all the outfielders. — Barry Lyga

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one ... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. — Philip Pullman

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition. — John Smith

God was just and that the head of the state in Egypt wielded his power fairly. If God deprived a child of family or wealth, He might bless him with intelligence, music, or the love of God and the homeland. A poor person might still be morally rich. — Nawal El Saadawi

Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again. — Dennis Miller