Rowntrees Random Quotes & Sayings

1993, in the death throes of apartheid, South Africa imprisoned 853 black men per hundred thousand in the population. The United States imprisons 4,919 black men per hundred thousand (versus only 943 white men). So because of the drug war and the way it is enforced, a black man was far more likely to be jailed in the Land of the Free than in the most notorious white supremacist society in the world. — Johann Hari

It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then. — Paul McCartney

Even if it's a life in shackles, if you have somebody who accepts you for what you really are, how reassuring would that be? — Sui Ishida

To be a screenwriter is to deal with an ongoing tug of war between breathtaking megalomania and insecurity so deep it takes years of therapy just to be able to say "I'm a writer" out loud. — Blake Snyder

I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe. — Jeanette Winterson

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? — C.S. Lewis

As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing. — Andrew O'Hagan

No dream is too high for those with their eyes in the sky. — Buzz Aldrin

It takes years to build on to a dream but only a second to shatter. — Chirag Tulsiani

I like to take care of people, and I like to make sure that they're OK and happy. — Kimberly Schlapman

Keep the reader guessing about where events are happening, what historical period the characters live in, and whether at any given moment they are jogging, taking a steam bath, or dangling from a precipice. Try to create an absolute nothingness in which, from time to time, a phone receiver or a pair of pert breasts materializes as the protagonist forms the intention to use them. — Howard Mittelmark

The TaskRabbit community provides thousands of individuals access to the kind of economy that puts them in charge of their own lives and income. TaskRabbit offers a new model of work, one that makes it possible for people to set their own schedules, establish their own rates, and use their talents and skills to earn a living on their own terms. — Leah Busque

I'm satisfied to go in at the bottom - that's the best way to learn what things are all about. — Cesar Romero

But I am not sick, or crazy, or broken.
I am Meda Melange, demon-saint monster girl. I make full-grown men scream in terror. I break bones and drain blood. I turn nightmares into reality.
I am the most powerful creature on earth. I do not wear a leash. — Eliza Crewe

Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy! — Hannah Murray