Machelle Somerville Quotes & Sayings

The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator ... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. — Octavio Paz

If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings. — Michel Gondry

She taught me that life goes on, and that I had a choice. To lament what I no longer had or be grateful for what remained. — Louise Penny

I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs. — Demetri Martin

Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand. — Napoleon Hill

If ice can burn," said Jojen in his solemn voice, "then love and hate can mate. — George R R Martin

I'm going to be a model of fearlessness. And when people spew fear, I'm going to stand with an invisible shield around me and let their comments zing off my shield, and I will say to myself 'not in my world!' because in my world, people do take risks, and people do try to make things better and they never say die! — Judy Frankel

My family is not only attractive - I can say that because I'm paterfamilias - but they're really smart, and they're very, very compassionate. — Tom Brokaw

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States. — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

It seemed that, after contact with a few human generations, sand hogs would begin to understand human speech. The irony was that after coming to understand their riders fully, the beasts often ended up abandoning them and heading off into the wilderness. — Neal Asher