Rockenbaugh Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. — Theodore Sturgeon

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know. — William Sleator

Writing is a delicious agony. — Gwendolyn Brooks

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. — Alexander Pope

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness. — Leo Tolstoy

The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by "attraction": just as Christ "draws all to himself" by the power of his love, culminating in the sacrifice of the Cross, so the Church fulfills her mission ... — Pope Benedict XVI

The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it. — Tim Burton

Wisdom of the Ages: "Uppity" How Obama's new aggressive style is described below the Mason-Dixon line. — Matthew D. Heines

I'm looking at myself," he said, ecstatically, "except it's you. — Philip Roth

We live in a nation where corporations are people. — Lizz Winstead

I'm always trying to come up with something new and unique. I do a beatbox with a harmonica. — Doug E. Fresh

The quintessential Japanese balance, I thought: to surrender all of yourself to an illusion, and yet somewhere, in some part of yourself, to know all the while that it is an illusion. — Pico Iyer

My father would never have said about any of his children you shouldn't express your opinions. But it's the way in which you express them. And for me to do - to speak at demonstrations and be as strident as I was now I see wasn't right. And it - there was a better way to do it. I could have written articles. — Patti Davis

I want to be a cowboy."
"You what?" She laughs and turns to look at him.
He runs his hand across the dash board. "This could be my steel horse. And look at me? I could rock a cowboy hat."
"This song's not about an actual cowboy. It's about touring with the band."
"It's open to interpretation. — Cheryl McIntyre

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president. — Indra Nooyi