Miocene Apes Quotes & Sayings

Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts. — Jane Yolen

I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time. — Anne Enright

Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind. — Jimi Hendrix

Is there anybody out there that will point to Hillary Clinton and say, "Gosh, my life is so much better because of her"? Why aren't they on stage? — Rush Limbaugh

After Napoleon's 1815 defeat at Waterloo, Europeans had created nation-states in the image and likeness of Napoleon. The new states became the foci of popular affection, even worship. All organized themselves as Napoleon had France, and as Hegel had prescribed, with every house numbered so that bureaucratic government could pass its science to and collect sustenance from each. The states became the purveyors of education and sources of authority. They fostered the myth that people within their borders formed distinct races with different geniuses and destinies. All partook of Charles Darwin's ideology that life is an evolutionary struggle in which the fittest survive. — Angelo M. Codevilla

At drama school, we were taught to write down your dreams and carry them around in your wallet with you, and they'll come true, but I didn't do that. — Lily James

Everyone is so caught up in his own passions and interests that he always wants to talk about them without getting involved in the passions and interests of those to whom he speaks, although his listeners have the same need for others to listen to and help them. — Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

Here! answered a husky voice from above, and, running up, Meg found her — Louisa May Alcott

What a magnificent land and race is this Britain! Everything about them is of better quality than the corresponding thing in the U.S ... Yet I believe (or suspect) that ours is eventually the bigger destiny, if we can only succeed in living up to it. — William James

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself. — George H. W. Bush

Who knows what death, anxiety of the living,
Who knows what loneliness, end of the loving
I could say to myself of the love (I had):
Let it not be immortal, since it is flame
But let it be infinite while it lasts. — Vinicius De Moraes