Robin Roberts Master Class Quotes & Sayings

It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony
the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean. — William Monahan

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land. — Jim Butcher

Yeah, I'm very smart. — Sylvia Browne

Vimes looked a little deflated.
"You can't tell me as commander of police I can't stop some little ti-- some idiot from writing down anything he likes?"
"Oh, no, sir. Of course you can. But I'm not sure you can stop him from writing down that you stopped him writing things down," said Carrot. — Terry Pratchett

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband. — Samuel Richardson

Around the world, countries flush with cash but poor in arable land are now rushing to secure vast amounts of acreage in land-rich but underdeveloped nations. In theory, of course, such trades could benefit both sides, but in practice they usually raise extraordinarily troubling ethical and political questions. What — Michael T. Klare

I think part of her feared that if Mother could leave her that way, she must be unlovable. And of course, she wasn't. — Polly Horvath

But that shadow self of hers wasn't so sure. The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it poisoned the entire stream. — Kristin Hannah

Since cable got the power and freedom it has, you can explore someone in a way you couldn't in the old days when Mannix was Mannix was Mannix. I thought maybe that Nixon would be an interesting series. — Douglas McGrath

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people. — Joan Collins

I love music, right? I can't say "I'm only going to listen to a physical medium," because there's a bunch of meaningful records that as a music fan I love that I would've never been able to access. So if I want to be part of something I have to get dragged along with technology. — Chuck Klosterman