The Indian Uprising Quotes & Sayings

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters. — Dolly Parton

My biggest surprises in my everyday job have to do with the challenges of trying to be slightly more responsible as a brand. — Stella McCartney

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place. — Karen Russell

My family moved to the Philippines when I was 14. While living there, I learned that my mom grew up very poor. Seeing that kind of abject poverty firsthand during my travels deeply shaped my life. Seeing those living conditions motivated me to want to tell inspiring stories of struggle and triumph. — Manny Pacquiao

Strings of language extend in every direction to bind the world into a rushing, ribald whole. — Donald Barthelme

The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs. — Saul Williams

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you — Vincent Van Gogh

That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action.
There weren't any more hitches now. The story flowed like a torrent. The margin bell chimed almost staccato, the roller turned with almost piston-like continuity, the pages sprang up almost like blobs of batter from a pancake skillet. The beer kept rising in the glass and, contradictorily, steadily falling lower. The cigarettes gave up their ghosts, long thin gray ghosts, in a good cause; the mortality rate was terrible.
His train of thought, the story's lifeline, beer-lubricated but no whit impeded, flashed and sputtered and coursed ahead like lightning in a topaz mist, and the loose fingers and hiccuping keys followed as fast as they could. ("The Penny-A-Worder") — Cornell Woolrich

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit. — Oscar Wilde

Life is a question without a standard answer. — Li Shufu

I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it. — Susanna Clarke

Man, God really does love medics. — Mark Bowden

Even though my fear was detonating over and over like bombs dropping, the fragile and fractured wings of my heart dared to beat as well, and alongside all that fear and all that gratitude, I felt the first precious rush of hope. — Shauna Niequist

My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States. — Joy Harjo

They sought to take the unfairness out of existence, to remove the mistakes in the transmitted message of life which gave it any point or advancement ... — Iain M. Banks