Ellenberger Fruit Quotes & Sayings

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false. — Barry Unsworth

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire. — Jenny Holzer

Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you. — Chuck Palahniuk

I've thought about it a hundred times. I even buy bridal magazines sometimes. I want David Tutera to do my wedding. — Marlen Esparza

As Edward Glaeser put it, 'Thoreau was wrong. Living in the country is not the right way to care for the Earth. The best thing that we can do for the planet is build more skyscrapers. — Matt Ridley

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up. — Michael Hudson

You can do this (this thing, where your body will cease to produce hormones and your skin, hair, muscles and bones ... basically every part of you will notice, go into withdrawals, and stage a coup). Be prepared for this mentally, and you'll own this thing. — Lisa Jey Davis

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country. — William J. Clinton

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write. — Patricia Reilly Giff

It crouches near the center of creation. There is no night where it waits. Only the riddle of which terrible dream will set it loose. It beheaded mercy to take possession of that place. It feasts on darkness from the minds of men. No one has ever seen its eyeless face. When it sleeps we know a few moments of peace. But when it breathes again we go down in fire and mate with jackals. It knows our fear. It has our number. It waited for our coming and it will abide long after we have become congealed smoke. It has never heard music, and shows its fangs when we panic. It is the beast of our savage past, hungering today, and waiting patiently for the mortal meal of all our golden tomorrows. It lies waiting. — Harlan Ellison

Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown. — Louise Imogen Guiney

Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream. — Adam Driver

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves. — Adam Johnson

Things can change on a daily basis in television. You can be introduced to aspects of your character that you had no idea existed because they didn't exist a week before. The next week it might be taken away from you in some way that you can't control. — Keeley Hawes