Maryna Ponomarenko Quotes & Sayings

Learn to spot and avoid "writer groupies." The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who never can get enough love. They grow jealous of our work and come to regard it as a rival. These people can destroy you, so kick them out of your life or don't admit them in the first place. — Florence King

He who calls what has vanished back into being, enjoys a bliss like that of creating — Barthold Niebuhr

We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now — Alex Salmond

I don't think about what other people want from me. — Sarah McLachlan

It's embarrassing to go through any rebellious stage in front of people that you love and respect, and yet I'm glad I did. — Drew Barrymore

I could still see the smoke stack. That's where the water would be, healing out to the sea and the peaceful grottoes. — William Faulkner

Abuse ... Injustice ... Hate ... Racism ... Are all the same! They're all WRONG! — Timothy Pina

The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity. — Germaine Greer

The last time I was charged by the FA they had a murder lawyer in against me, so it's going to be a hard case to win. — Roy Keane

What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English. — Sandra Cisneros

And my Guide to me: He will not wake again until the angel trumpet sounds the day on which the host shall come to judge all men. Then shall each soul before the seat of Mercy return to its sad grave and flesh and form to hear the edict of Eternity. — Dante Alighieri

I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story. — Buchi Emecheta

Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart. — Dean Koontz

We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time. — Buzz Osborne