Genuses Of Animals Quotes & Sayings

She was thinking - for, since she had been formed by literature, she could think in no other way - that all this had been described in Dickens, Tolstoy, Hugo, Dostoevsky, and a dozen others. All that noble and terrific indignation had done nothing, achieved nothing, the shout of anger from the nineteenth century might as well have been silent - for here came the file of prisoners, handcuffed two by two, and on their faces was that same immemorial look of patient, sardonic understanding. — Doris Lessing

I don't know that I can define fear. But one of the sources of fear is holding up some sort of model life that doesn't exist and feeling like you're far away from it. — Albert Brooks

I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time. — Sue Monk Kidd

Return to the root and you will find the meaning. — Sengcan

What was the idea behind Hot Pockets? Was there a marketing meeting somewhere, 'Hey I got an idea: How about we take a Pop-Tart and fill it with really nasty meat? You could cook it in a sleeve thing, and you could dunk it in the toilet.' — Jim Gaffigan

Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world. — Taryn Manning

In the festival which concludes the period, before they go to the temple, both wives and children fall on their knees before their husbands or parents and confess everything in which they have either erred or failed in their duty, and beg pardon for it. — Thomas More

The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful. — Yoko Ono

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line. — Carl Bernstein

At 35 years of age, I realized that my ballet career wasn't going to last for ever. As a parent of three young children, I had to start to plan my future after dance even though I dreaded about. — Li Cunxin

I realized little by little that words are very powerful, and taking those words to encourage people rather than tear them apart was the desire of my heart. — Tracie Peterson