Loudonshire Quotes & Sayings

We do have some strong traditions of community in the United States, but it's interesting to me that our traditionally patriotic imagery in this country celebrates the individual, the solo flier, independence. We celebrate Independence Day; we don't celebrate We Desperately Rely on Others Day. Oh, I guess that's Mother's Day [laughter]. It does strike me that our great American mythology tends to celebrate separate achievement and separateness, when in fact nobody does anything alone. — Barbara Kingsolver

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments. — Roger Ebert

Representing the struggle that Muslim minorities go through today is something I personally experience. So I know that at the end of the day, I have a voice for many millions of people who don't have any representation at all. — Lazarus Of Bethany

Ambition is no cure for love! — Walter Scott

I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedlessly one might say-or 'fearlessly'- into my own future: this time of utter raw anguished loss. Though I may have had, since adolescence, a kind of intellectual/literary precocity, I had not experienced much;nor would I experience much until I was well into middle age-the illnesses and deaths of my parents, this unexpected death of my husband. We play at paste till qualified for pearl says Emily Dickinson. Playing at paste is much of our early lives. And then, with the violence of a door slammed shut by wind rushing through a house, life catches up with us. — Joyce Carol Oates

There are many types of strength beyond the ability to wield a blade and end lives. — Sarah J. Maas

See this? I wrote this piece two years ago, after my parents died. I was angry. I was hurt. I wrote down exactly what I was feeling. When I read it now, I don't share those same feelings. Do I regret writing it? No. Because there's a chance that someone in this very room may relate to this. It might mean something to them. — Colleen Hoover

If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you. — Ted Cruz

Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power. — Orson Scott Card

You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation. — Dick Dale

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. — Mother Teresa

Wisdom begins where intelligence ends. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan. — Rita Mae Brown

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us. — Chinua Achebe