Greenbaum Optometry Quotes & Sayings

Most makers make things for a human audience. And to engage an audience you have to understand what they need. — Paul Graham

Why is it that, in creative writing courses today, the very first thing we teach students is write what you know? Perhaps that's not the right way to start at all. Imaginative literature is not necessarily about writing who we are or what we know or what our identity is about. We should teach young people and ourselves to expand our hearts and write what we can feel. We should get out of our cultural ghetto and go visit the next one and the next. — Elif Shafak

Connecting people to fix the world over time is the deepest spiritual value you can have,' Newmark [Craigslist creator] has said. — Susan Cain

I don't believe in Melitele, don't believe in the existence of other gods either, but I respect your choice, your sacrifice. Your belief. Because your faith and sacrifice, the price you're paying for your silence, will make you better, a greater being. Or, at least, it could. But my faithlessness can do nothing. It's powerless. — Andrzej Sapkowski

I know life all too well. But I turned from that path. I'm not a rat anymore. I'm the lightning girl, and now I have too many ideas to count. Freedom, revenge, liberty, everything that fuels the sparks within me, and the resolve that keeps me going. — Victoria Aveyard

For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is still much greater than Whites. Today, there is less overt racism, but the economic injustices create an "institutional racism" which exists even while more Blacks are in high places, such as Condoleeza Rice in Bush's Administration and Obama running for President. — Howard Zinn

- Do you know what we mean by Cold War?
- War don't have no temperature. — Marlon James

Gay people don't actually try to convert people. That's Jehovah's Witnesses you're thinking of. — Tina Fey

I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life. — Willie Aames

Sometimes going back to the beginning is the only way. — Rachel Hauck

I can't accept overnight what I've always denied. — Truman Capote