Lacoursiere Publishing Quotes & Sayings

I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road. — Linda Sue Park

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way. — John Hawkes

The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok's wonder The Puppet Show. — Vsevolod Meyerhold

There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil. — Homer

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me. — John F. Kerry

Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all. — Ellen Hopkins

Sometimes I just get tired. I get headaches, and I just lose track. I mean, it's like which is me and which is the role? Where's the line between me and my shadow? — Haruki Murakami

Philip that there were three things to find out: man's relation to the world he lives in, man's relation with the men among whom he lives, and finally man's relation — W. Somerset Maugham

I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude. — Willie Nelson

The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price. — Theodore Roosevelt

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a confession," he said. "Sometimes I offend on purpose. It's like my smile."
"That's not an apology."
"Princes don't apologize. — Marie Rutkoski

Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes
and your enemy looks just like your neighbor. — Soren Kierkegaard

If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you see it. — Olive Schreiner

A. W. Tozer once said, "Eternity won't be long enough to discover all that God is or praise him for all that he's done."6 — Mark Batterson