Freedoms Writers Quotes & Sayings

But there was a constant willingness to take out a
topic, test it, shake it apart, mix up the pieces, and test them again. — Anne Osterlund

With Dad, he was the ultimate wildlife warrior, and we admired him more than anything. — Bindi Irwin

I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great musicians would come through our town of Memphis. There wasn't adequate hotels, so these musicians - the lady who ran the theater knew my mother, who had a large house, and many of them would stay with us. So that was another great blessing, so I'm always around these great geniuses, and to realize their humanity is such a touching thing. — Charles Lloyd

How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers — Matsuo Basho

The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president. — Tina Brown

The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible. — Ralph Nader

Yes, and you should question your government. — Jessica Lange

I swallowed and bit my lower lip, "Maybe freedom is never truly free, as they say," I said into his green eyes, "it comes with a price, and sooner or later, time will come to collect its toll. — Julia J. Gibbs

I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting feelings, my sparklers and black holes, and my single visual hallucination of a little pink man and a pink ox on the floor of my bedroom. — Siri Hustvedt

For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool. — Nikki Giovanni

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Today, we cannot produce machines that fly the same as UFOs do. They are flying by means of artificial fields of Gravity. This would explain the sudden changes of directions. This hypothesis would also explain the piling-up of these discs into a cylindrical or cigar-shaped mothership upon leaving the Earth. — Hermann Oberth

Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass. — Rajneesh

If we hadn't controlled the Senate, I would never have had to eat that particular shit sandwich," Abbott told Peter Hartcher. "Getting control of the Senate was a curse. It allowed us to do things that we would not normally have been able to get away with and I think it tempted us to chance our arm in ways which ultimately did us significant political damage." In the end, he decided to stay in cabinet. He didn't bitch and moan to the press gallery. He went back to work. — David Marr

A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem. — Amity Shlaes