Toshia Poundstone Quotes & Sayings

The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events. — Will McDonough

Prohibitionism is based on the premise that citizens will refrain from behaviors that are deemed immoral or harmful if such behaviors are decreed unlawful and criminal, even though such behaviors do not harm or unreasonably endanger others without their informed consent. Prohibitionism stems from totalitarian paternalism, an ideology rather prevalent among governing elites around the world, based on the presumption that people are feeble, foolish and irresponsible, needing constant protection from themselves. — Jeffrey Dhywood

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers. — Margaret Heffernan

The brilliant escape, the funny line to cap it, despite the lack of timing. And the girl was still dead. The last act had not materialised. The world, and himself, remained so far from what they should be: so imperfect. — Paul Cornell

The pleasures of being a novelist are many. But the greatest by far is the manner in which I live through my characters; experiencing every detail of their story as it unfolds gradually and personally within my own creative psyche. I'm like a cat with untold lives, because each new book is my rebirth. — Richelle E. Goodrich

What doesn't kill you very often makes you weaker. What doesn't kill you can leave you limping for the rest of your days. What doesn't kill you can make you scared to leave your house, or even your bedroom, and have you trembling, or mumbling incoherently, or leaning with your head on a window pane, wishing you could return to the time before the thing that didn't kill you. — Matt Haig

Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches ... — Charles Stross

Enquire: 'Who am I?' and you will find the answer. Look at a tree: from one seed arises a huge tree; from it comes numerous seeds, each one of which in its turn grows into a tree. No two fruits are alike. Yet it is one life that throbs in every particle of the tree. So, it is the same Atman everywhere. — Anandamayi Ma

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level. — Jeffery Deaver

The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend. — Evagrius Ponticus

I don't believe it is in the state's interest to industrialize our ridge lines. — James H. Douglas

I feel you," he said, "whether stalking me through the streets of London, or hiding behind a screen in my library. — Kristen Callihan

When we pray, we open the door for God to come into our problems and situations and work on them. — Joyce Meyer

Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius. — T. S. Eliot