Melle Powers Quotes & Sayings

I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed. — Beverly Cleary

I can see that I give my audience something. I can see it in their eyes, and they say 'Thank you' a lot. You realize you are doing something that means something to people. — Wes Craven

Stern is the visage of necessity. — Friedrich Schiller

I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems. — Victoria Chang

Let me share a famous life history with you. This was a man who failed in business at the age of twenty-one; was defeated in a legislative race at age twenty-two; failed again in business at age twenty-four; had his sweetheart die when he was age twennty-six; had a nervous breakdown at age twenty-seven; lost a congressional race at age thirty-four; lost a senatorial race at age forty-five; failed in an effort to become vice-president at age forty-seven; lost a senatorial race at age forty-nine; and was elected president of the United States at age fifty-two. This man was Abraham Lincoln. — Shiv Khera

The further away I am from water, the less well I do! — John Waters

A brief rustling that broke off short, as if startled at itself, then deadly silence, that agonising, watchful hush, fraught with its own betrayal, that stretched each minute to an excruciating eternity. — Gustav Meyrink

war, instead of finishing in 1945, would have ended in 1948 had the Government Code and Cypher School not been able to read the Enigma cyphers and produce the Ultra intelligence." During this period of delay, additional lives would have been lost in Europe, and Hitler would have been able to make greater use of his V-weapons, inflicting damage throughout southern England. The historian David Kahn summarizes the impact of breaking Enigma: "It saved lives. Not only Allied and Russian lives but, by shortening the war, German, Italian, and Japanese lives as well. Some people alive after World War II might not have been but for these solutions. That is the debt that the world owes to the codebreakers; that is the crowning human value of their triumphs. — Simon Singh

You're just as much an outsider as I am. I've read your dissertations."
"You have?" She's surprised.
"Believe it or not, I can read too." I shake my head. "It's like everyone forgets I only missed one question on the Institute's slangsmarts test."
"Ew. You missed a question?" She wrinkles her nose as she picks a practice razor from a bench. "I suppose that's why you weren't in Minerva. — Pierce Brown

If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans. — Jack Nicholson

The soldier is the army. — George S. Patton

The willingness to share does not make one charitable;it makes one free. — Robert Brault

Good heart, good deeds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Death only this mysterious truth unfolds,
The mighty soul how small a body holds. — John Dryden

Finding the happiness within is difficult but looking for happiness outside is futile. — Debasish Mridha