Picketed Pear Quotes & Sayings

A good story needs conflict, and virtual reality is a great hypothetical way to create conflict ... In some ways, the future is going to be more boring than we think. — Palmer Luckey

What draws me to roles, I think, are moments - moments that define character, where so much more of the story is told in just a moment - a look, a line, a short scene, but something that speaks a volume, something that speaks to me. — Nathan Fillion

Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening. — John Taylor Gatto

Confused by the emotion of the day, and feeling his being there with this Double of coarse deportment, to be like a dream, Charles Darnay was at a loss how to answer; finally, answered not at all. "Now your dinner is done," Carton presently said, "why don't you call a health, Mr. Darnay; why don't you give your toast?" "What health? What toast?" "Why, it's on the tip — Charles Dickens

Else would my scalp long since have been drying in a Mingo wigwam. — James Fenimore Cooper

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven. — George Bernard Shaw

It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching. — Octavia E. Butler

I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that. — Tracy Morgan

I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama. — Greg Louganis

To sate your need without love is theft — Robin Hobb

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. — Charles Kingsley

With a leer of mingled sweetness and slyness; with one eye on the future, one on the bride, and an arch expression in her face, partly spiritual, partly spirituous, and wholly professional and peculiar to her art; Mrs Gamp rummaged in her pocket again [ ... ] — Charles Dickens

... smart, funny, sweet, nice to his family, good looking in an adorable kind of way. — Penny Reid

Nothing is ever wrong. We learn from every step we take. Whatever you did today was the way it was meant to be. Be proud of you. — Oprah Winfrey