Siuan Sanche Fish Quotes & Sayings

There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females. — Anne Tyler

Like I said, some people think it's weird that my best friend is a girl. Sometimes I think it's weird, too. Mostly people assume that we're boyfriend and girlfriend, which I guess we could be. But that just seems too teen-movie, if you know what I mean. A boy and girl are best friends, neither of them dates anyone else, and then one night they look at each other and - bang - they realize they've been in love with each other the whole time. Everyone's happy and they go to the big dance together. — Michael Thomas Ford

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence. — Geraldine Brooks

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires. — Livy

When you first go on duty at CIA headquarters, you raise your hand and swear an oath - not to government, not to the agency, not to secrecy. You swear an oath to the Constitution. So there's this friction, this emerging contest between the obligations and values that the government asks you to uphold, and the actual activities that you're asked to participate in. — Jeremy Scahill

I'm my beloved's and my beloved is mine. — Anonymous

The Lord is near to all who call upon Him. Psalm 145:18 — Max Lucado

Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target. — Ali Babacan

I look forward to continuing to serve the people of New York and making our state a safer place to live, work and raise families for many years to come. — Eric Schneiderman

I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful — Charles Portis

Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea. — E.E. Evans-Pritchard

And sometimes when you lie to me Sometimes I'll lie to you And there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives Aren't as bad as they seem But now I see blood and I hear people scream Then I wake up And it's just another bad dream . . . — Michael Grant