Jonessa Miner Quotes & Sayings

You don't want to lose the foreign feel of a book entirely, but for me the prime requisite is to get it sounding good in English. If it sounds clumsy, readers will pounce on it of course. — Anthea Bell

Phones were created as social tools. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a user's needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network. — Keith Teare

One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profitable. My advice to them: Put Elvis Presley in the studio with a bunch of good, contemporary rockers, lock the studio up, and tell him he can't come out until he's done made an album that rocks from beginning to end. — Jon Landau

And when it comes down to cases, everything written is at least in part a fantasy. Except maybe for the national budget. That's horror. — Mercedes Lackey

Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised. — Gautama Buddha

We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible. — Marc Garneau

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general. — Madeleine L'Engle

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. — Thorstein Veblen

Cartooning is an honorable thing. — Bill Sienkiewicz

I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in an afterlife or not, whether I believe in God or not, I can only answer you that all things are possible. And if all things are possible, heaven and hell and the angels are also possible. They're not to be ruled out. — Jorge Luis Borges

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat. — Evel Knievel

I canna let you die like Da," he said softly.
"And yet ye canna let me live," she replied. — Madeline Martin

Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human. — Adam Nevill

Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me — Duane Michals

I trip off it. You know what's interesting about the makeup is when you get up close and you know he's been working on your face, and you see where the makeup starts and it stops, and how seamless it is. You could look at it for hours. — Eddie Murphy