Jesilyn Figueroa Quotes & Sayings

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it. — Maya Lin

Usually, you don't really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars. — Lea Thompson

Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye. — Janet Frame

Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth - on the quality and the character of it - and where it ought to go. We don't have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland. — James Howard Kunstler

In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry, still summer day in the Midwest: an unsettling calm before a ferocious storm over Vietnam, which was not yet an American war. — Tom Brokaw

Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love. — Richard Hugo

There's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun. — Fred Bear

Every book is a miracle,' Bill said. 'Every book represents a moment when someone sat quietly - and that quiet is part of the miracle, make no mistake - and tried to tell the rest of us a story. — J.R. Moehringer

And while the body is confined to one planet, along which it creeps with pain and difficulty; the thought can in an instant transport us into the most distant regions of the universe; or even beyond the universe, into the unbounded chaos, where nature is supposed to lie in total confusion. What never was seen, or heard or, may yet be conceived; not is any thing beyond the power of thought, except what implies as absolute contradiction. — David Hume

That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure. — Walter Moers

There's no shame in honest suffering, my dear. — Andrea Cremer

All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart? — Mitch Albom

Andy: But they gave us an out in the Land of Oz. They made us write. They didn't make us write particularly well. And they didn't always give us important things to write about. But they did make us sit down, and organize our thoughts, and convey those thoughts on paper as clearly as we could to another person. Thank God for that. That saved us. Or at least it saved me. So I have to keep writing letters. If I can't write them to you, I have to write them to someone else. I don't think I could ever stop writing completely. — A.R. Gurney

I am all or nothing — Jude Morgan