Harrowell Shaftoe Quotes & Sayings

I found myself wondering, what would it be like to have a strange woman living in your home, nursing your child? My resulting research into the private lives of women in the 18th and 19th centuries inspired me and provided the backbone for [Lady of Milkweed Manor] novel. — Julie Klassen

House Speaker Pelosi worried about the opposition, the tone of it, perhaps leading to violence as it did in the 70s. Theres more recent examples of anti-government violence - occurring even in the mid-90s. Do you worry about that? — David Gregory

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera. — Al-Waleed Bin Talal

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second. — Jonathan Haidt

No problem is insurmountable if you're willing to be creative and bat your eyelashes a little! (Not sexist, guys have eyelashes, too.) — Felicia Day

Those who never trial, never fails. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When there is no vision, people perish. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great. — James Frey