Tesori Oriente Quotes & Sayings

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice. — Brian Keene

Perhaps you think too hard about what words you're going to use and how to make your mouth say them. — Ali Shaw

As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital. — Donald Evans

Getting a gay fan base is slow. I think if I were able to reach more gay people they would love it. I can't get the songs in their ears. I love my gay family. I just wish I could reach more of them. I'm in this car going from club to club but they're not gay clubs. — Mary Gauthier

Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in. — Jackie Kay

It didn't take long for the anger to put the happiness in a headlock. — Jennifer Estep

I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poems that I do read which seem oblivious to my presence as a reader. — Billy Collins

Those whose work and pleasure are one ... are ... Fortune's favoured children. — Winston S. Churchill

Twitter is the world. — Jack Dorsey

I found the world of the Little House books to be so much less confusing, not just because it was "simpler," as plenty of people love to insist, but because it reconciled all the little contradictions of my modern girlhood. On the Banks of Plum Creek clicked with me especially, with its perfect combination of pinafores and recklessness. (I will direct your attention to the illustration on page 31 of my Plum Creek paperback, where you will note how fabulous Laura looks as she pokes the badger with a stick; her style is casual yet feminine, perfect for precarious nature adventures!) At an age when I found myself wanting both a Webelos uniform and a head of beautiful Superstar Barbie hair, On the Banks of Plum Creek was a reassuring book. Being a girl sometimes made more sense in Laura World than it did in real life. — Wendy McClure