Silamaze Quotes & Sayings

In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has been weakened everywhere in the world, a special responsibility lies upon the writer. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Growing up, I would say Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew were definite role models for me. Historically, I know Amelia Earhart stands out for me. — Keri Russell

Generally, the bigger the budget, the less interesting the characters become. — Matt Damon

The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing. — Daniel Goleman

I would be researching seventeenth-century garden design or I would be doing something with Pepys, but I just kept using all of it to write about Margaret Cavendish. It took me a long time to realize that I just wanted to write a book about her. Years. — Danielle Dutton

Life is an act and we are all actors in the arena of life. We all do act each day from dawn to dusk. Some act well but some act to cover their acts — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus. — William A. Dembski

I like fixing things. — Richard E. Grant

But the more familiar one becomes with any religious system, while yet the conscience and will are unawakened and obedience has not begun, the harder is it to enter into the kingdom of heaven. Such familiarity is a soul-killing experience, and great will be the excuse for some of those sons of religious parents who have gone further toward hell than many born and bred thieves and sinners. — George MacDonald

Langdon always ended this lecture with a reminder that Arab culture had also given mankind the word al-kuhl - the favorite beverage of Harvard freshmen - known as alcohol. — Dan Brown

Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us. — Helene Cixous