Ebaugh Missing Quotes & Sayings

It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound. — Willa Cather

It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created. — Lawana Blackwell

People get away with enslaving village girls for the same reason that people got away with enslaving blacks two hundred years ago: The victims are perceived as discounted humans. — Nicholas D. Kristof

Terrible thought she was brave. She remembered it now, heard his voice in her head as if he stood next to her. "They scared. Not you, though." Terrible thought she was brave, and if he - a man whose name was Terrible, a man whose path people scrambled to get out of - thought so, it must be true. She could do this, she would do this. — Stacia Kane

Message reads: 'Houston, be advised: Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man. — Andy Weir

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film. — Jerry Saltz

It's not where you start but where you finish. — April Heinrichs

I'm one of the luckiest people in the world that I was able to do what I fell in love with and be able to make a living doing it. — Scott Weiland

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party. — Richard Dawkins

My own view is simply that there are some very basic rules; very simple rules that apply to all writing in a way, which is: don't lie; if you're wrong, correct; do not misrepresent; and try and keep oneself intellectually honest - which means, as a writer, the very difficult task in public of admitting you were wrong. — Andrew Sullivan

If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash. — Catherine Hardwicke

The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The day you stop clapping at a gig is the day your soul dies. — Chet Faker