Tianne Doyle Quotes & Sayings

Too much contemporary fiction seems purposefully to address small things in small ways. And yet why not try for the all-inclusive, the gripping, for the audacious? — Darin Strauss

At Madame's suggestion, they lie down in the weeds, and Marie-Laure listens to honeybees mine the flowers and tries to imagine their journeys as Etienne described them: each worker following a rivulet of odor, looking for ultraviolet patterns in the flowers, filling baskets on her hind legs with pollen grains, then navigating, drunk and heavy, all the way home. How — Anthony Doerr

I've never worked in the U.K. television industry, but my guess it that it's a tough world for directors. — Lenny Abrahamson

Well, but it's criminal negligence, really. These kids have to grow up and run things. Larger things than a ball field, I mean. What kind of world will they really be able to make? — Barbara Kingsolver

As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy. — Paul Auster

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day. — Rosa Parks

Having knowledge of the Bible is essential to a rich and meaningful life. — Billy Graham

But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in which power was turned back to the peoplein which government at all levels was refreshed and renewed and made truly responsive. This can be a revolution as profound, as far-reaching, as exciting as that first revolution almost 200 years agoand it can mean that just 5 years from now America will enter its third century as a young nation new in spirit, with all the vigor and the freshness with which it began its first century. — Richard M. Nixon

Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows. — Charles Caleb Colton

I love working with my friends. — Martin Starr

When a wound is dirty, you have to clean it,
before it becomes more rotten.
P.C.M. Hermans
September 16, 2016
Babaji — Petra Hermans

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration. — Gillian Cross

every father wants to see his girls settled and not end up old maids — Sinead Moriarty

In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents. — Alexandre Dumas