Mellencamp And Meg Quotes & Sayings

In the 1950s, there was a sense that literature and writing had a burning importance - that you could write a book or paint a painting and change the world. That kind of faith seems to be lacking now. Literature has been pushed toward the sidelines of [modern day] culture. There isn't that sense of centrality or permanence to the written word - everything seems more disposable. — Joyce Johnson

That night, I thanked God for seeing me through that day of days and prayed I would make it through D plus 1. I also promised that if some way I could get home again, I would find a nice peaceful town and spend the rest of my life in peace. — Richard Winters

It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists. — Harvey Weinstein

Do you mean am I worried about people seeing me with my jeans off? Sure. Sometimes people are overcome. They fall down. They hit their heads. It's worrying. — Sarah Rees Brennan

There is nothing better or more necessary than love. — San Juan De La Cruz

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer. — Richard M. Nixon

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there. — Paul Westerberg

The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations. — Vaclav Havel

Black families, regardless of income, are significantly less wealthy than white families. The Pew Research Center estimates that white households are worth roughly 20 times as much as black households, and that whereas only 15 percent of whites have zero or negative wealth, more than a third of blacks do. Effectively, the black family in America is working without a safety net. — Anonymous

There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals. — Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

Trying and acheiving are two different things. — Tim Gunn

Sometimes, for principle, your gonna have to kick some ass. — Jill Scott

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts — William Deresiewicz

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
[Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille,
Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.] — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe