Newsmakers 1993 Quotes & Sayings

But how nice it would be to know that some good Yankee woman - And there must be SOME good Yankee women. I don't care what people say, they can't all be bad! How nice it would be to know that they pulled weeds off our men's graves and brought flowers to them, even if they were enemies. If Charlie were dead in the North it would comfort me to know that someone - And I don't care what you ladies think of me," her voice broke again, "I will withdraw from both clubs and I'll - I'll pull up every weed off every Yankee's grave I can find and I'll plant flowers, too - and - I just dare anyone to stop me! — Margaret Mitchell

There are things that a woman sings, and only a woman knows the full meaning. You may sing for men as well as for women, but only a woman knows your full meaning. I am not a feminista. I only think a woman should be true to who she believes herself to be. Or who she wants herself to be. Or who she imagines herself to be. I don't know what I mean, or whether I'm true myself to any of that. I don't think there are many of us who are true to our possibilities. — Gayl Jones

If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I'd just go back to Virginia. — Dave Grohl

If I could, I would bottle your laugh and drink it so that the feeling you give me would forever live inside. — Andrea Michelle

She folded her arms across her breasts and looked at me like a lioness. — Ross Macdonald

People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organisations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear. — L. Ron Hubbard

After all, as educated men, we should realize that myths always stand for other things. They are toys for children teething. The man knows that the toy horse is not a true horse but merely suggests the idea of a horse to a baby's mind. When we pray before the statue of Zeus, though the statue contains him as everything must, the statue is not the god himself but only a suggestion of him. Surely, as fellow priests, we can be frank with one another about these grown-up matters. — Gore Vidal

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me. — Charles Kettering

Immigration has defined my entire life. My parents left Mozambique with nothing but their wits in search of a better life for their kids. They moved to England in the 1970s, saw the classism there, and left for America soon after. — Jose Ferreira

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. — Ray Bradbury

One burns the dead while the other burns the living. — Robin S. Sharma

I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal. — Jude Morgan

September has come, it is hers
Whose vitality leaps in the autumn,
Whose nature prefers
Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace.
So I give her this month and the next
Though the whole of my year should be hers who has rendered already
So many of its days intolerable or perplexed
But so many more so happy.
Who has left a scent on my life, and left my walls
Dancing over and over with her shadow
Whose hair is twined in all my waterfalls
And all of London littered with remembered kisses. — Louis MacNeice

Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction. — Lauren Willig