Straightforwardness Synonym Quotes & Sayings

[On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny. — June Allyson

If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem? If writing bores you, that is pretty fatal. If that is not the case, but you find that it is hard going and it just doesn't flow, well, what did you expect? It is work; art is work. — Ursula K. Le Guin

When I was in high school, I was the guy directing plays after class. I started my first theater company at 19, and my second theater company at 21. I've always been a guy who doesn't do well with the passive nature of being an actor. — Matthew Lillard

Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is the same: that which is now seen and now grasped is not, in its clearness, the shadowy thing that was. — Jens Peter Jacobsen

I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going. — Alan King

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people. — Muqtada Al Sadr

We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor. — Ezra Taft Benson

Aryan said "Once an angel came in my dream and said", You will get whatever you want in your life in this world and from this world. — Newpostcard

A time when the miracles of technology were still virile and exciting: steam engines and flying machines, not smart phones and cosmetic surgery. When there were still wildernesses left to explore and mountains left unclimbed — Ben Elton

For the body tells all to him who knows the language, and doesn't lie. — Kai Ashante Wilson

Their latest label for religious people is "American Taliban." The left loves it. It's meant to denigrate Christians as potential threats to world peace (although the greatest threats of the last century, Nazism and communism, were both secular). — Ben Shapiro

Solitude takes time. One becomes alone, like a towel drying. — James Richardson

Savannah must remain his. He drew a last breath, taking her scent into his body and holding it there as his heart ceased to beat. — Christine Feehan

Reform as such is inherently reactionary and perpetuates
psychological dependence on
the enemy,while confusing
the true class contradictions
between ourselves and the enemy. — Black Liberation Army Co-Ordinating Committee

Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders. — Chris Rock