Lily Evans Book Quotes & Sayings

Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate. — David Packer

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself. — Meryl Streep

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. — Layne Staley

The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist. — Pankaj Mishra

How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them. — Jim Rohn

Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism. — Quentin Tarantino

Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal. — David Byrne

Darkness was a beautiful thing. The kiss of a shadow. A caress as soft as moonlight. — Mary E. Pearson

Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions. — Larry Elder

It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and from their standpoint it appears that the Western mistrust of human nature-whether theological or technological-is a kind of schizophrenia. It would be impossible, in their view, to believe oneself innately evil without discrediting the very belief, since all the notions of a perverted mind would be perverted notions. — Alan W. Watts