Leah King Smith Quotes & Sayings

In this profession mistakes are all a part of it. If you write something flawlessly you've done something wrong. — Eric T. Benoit

I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children. — Ada Yonath

New York is a lot more fun than L.A. — Sara Paxton

If I was telling this story to the girls from back home, I would have to explain to them how it was possible to be drowning in a river of people and also feel so very, very alone. — Chris Cleave

We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace. — Walter Lippmann

Good fiction doesn't claim to mirror reality at all. It indicts reality by providing a paradigm of shape and order and justice - the way we all know things should be - without suggesting that's how things really are. Good fiction is the mirage that declares itself a mirage, yet compels us to faith through its beauty. Good fiction is the dream that's too good to be true, so perfect and symmetrical that it gives itself away every time. But it doesn't trick you into suspending your disbelief by trying to look anything like reality. Good fiction makes you acutely, painfully aware of your disbelief, and makes you believe anyway. And when it's done well - when it's done right - good fiction is more real than reality. — P.S. Baber

I live in California, the worst place in the world for fat people. There are three of us. They have us on eight-hour shifts, so it works out. — Louie Anderson

To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol - a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in
heart and cheerful of spirit. — John Maynard Keynes

You are moving in the opposite direction when your life is about survival only — Sunday Adelaja

When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel. — John Weitz

There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women. — Madeleine Albright

She wanted to stomp her foot, throw a tantrum, throw a punch. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

It is every man's duty to remain loyal to his rightful King, even if the lord he serves proves false. — George R R Martin

All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust. — George R R Martin

All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be accepted, cherished, and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult? — Derrick Jensen