Jordanne Gerbing Quotes & Sayings

No individual element in your story, including the hero, will work unless you first create it and define it in relation to all the other elements. — John Truby

We weren't ashamed to enjoy food and alcohol in moderation - why were we so afraid of sex? — Sierra Simone

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. — John Quincy Adams

We can instantly map the usage of the word 'raven' across the United States, in works of narrative poetry, written by men in their thirties. but only up to 1923. When it comes to the last century, save if new law affords entry, then the lawyer - dark-robed sentry - who is ever at our door, will yet whisper, "Nevermore! — Erez Aiden

The clever use of media (i.e., TV political ads, image creations and management) kept us from raising or even addressing major problems we face as a nation - our identity, our values, our role as a resource for peace rather than war, for justice rather than its miscarriages, for people rather than corporations, for decency rather than humiliation, and for democracy rather than "hypocracy." Martin Luther King, Jr., stated it well: A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: "This is not just. . . . — Anthony J. Marsella

Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next. — Yasmin Mogahed

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about. — Salman Rushdie

Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments. It stains our cities and towns with ugliness, soiling and corroding whatever it touches. Its damage extends to our forests and farmlands as well. The economic toll for our neglect amounts to billions of dollars each year. — Lyndon B. Johnson