Needleman Howard Quotes & Sayings

If someone doesn't understand the importance of sensitivity readers, chances are they may need them the most... — Kira Hawke

Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft. — Sophocles

It wasn't until my teenage years that a book really left a mark, and that was George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four.' It was on the syllabus at school when I was about 16, and I went on to read more of his books. It was the height of the Cold War, so a lot of the messages really resonated at the time. — John Niven

When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle. — Lisa Kleypas

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather. — Andrea Arnold

Then there was someone else I met,
whose face and voice I can't forget,
and the memory of her
is like a jail I'm trapped inside,
or maybe she is something I just use
to hold my real life at a distance. — Tony Hoagland

The artist doesn't really think about consequences - he or she does the work, stands back and looks at and thinks, 'Hmm, that could have worked better like this.' But as a person who needs to sell tickets to do the next work, one needs to analyze how it does or does not hit its mark. — Twyla Tharp

It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound. — Henry David Thoreau

A child should learn from early on what kind of activity supported his daily life, and he should appreciate the importance of labor. Tengo — Haruki Murakami

Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds. — Richard Bayan

Writing lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of thoughtfulness. — Atul Gawande

I'm not a fan of fillers at all. If you've gone 35 or 40 years without big lips, I don't think it's time to start plumping them up artificially. — Cindy Crawford

You've been the rabbi here for thirty years and these guys who've never set foot here want to decide who should be rabbi or not. And to lead prayer in Hebrew for Jews who speak Arabic, they want you to write in French. So I say they're nuts. — Joann Sfar

Ageing footballers never lose their commitment; they just lose their pace — Gary Lineker

I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa's gonna be mad when he sees me do that. He don't like no fancy stuff like that. He don't even like word writin'. Kinda scare 'im, I guess. Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im. — John Steinbeck