Lienne Pisano Quotes & Sayings

Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion. — Glen Duncan

If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful. — Matt Mullenweg

I can't tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get. — Cristela Alonzo

I think Andrew Stanton is such an amazing, creative mind. — Lynn Collins

Ranger slung an arm around me and hugged me into him, and I could feel him laughing. "It's not funny," I said. "Babe, I haven't got a lot of funny in my life. Let me enjoy the moment. — Janet Evanovich

His sinner's mouth was wet from me and red from our kisses. — Sylvia Day

Manhattan is a small town. It has to be. Only half a dozen places in Kansas are anything else. — Raymond Chandler

The American Senate remained focused on domestic priorities and thwarted all expansionist projects. It kept the army small (25,000 men) and the navy weak. Until 1890, the American army ranked fourteenth in the world, after Bulgaria's, and the American navy was smaller than Italy's even though America's industrial strength was thirteen times that of Italy. America did not participate in international conferences and was treated as a second-rank power. In 1880, when Turkey reduced its diplomatic establishment, it eliminated its embassies in Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the United States. At the same time, a German diplomat in Madrid offered to take a cut in salary rather than be posted to Washington.18 — Henry Kissinger

For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all. — Kathe Kollwitz

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake. — Terry Pratchett

There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens. — Steven Pressfield

I've rarely said the word "Lord," unless it's followed by "of the Rings. — A. J. Jacobs

That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both. — Scott Westerfeld

It is better to focus on the mission than to earn money. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading about other peoples' foibles and mistakes was so much easier than living through her own. — Julia Kent