Valentes Needham Quotes & Sayings

But how nice it is that one can come to know someone just through correspondence, and become really passionate friends. — Julia Child

The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not only for its own characters caught in its own plotlines; it offers magical metamorphoses to the one who opens the door, who passes on what was found there, and to those who hear what the storyteller brings. The faculty of wonder, like curiosity can make things happen; it is time for wishful thinking to have its due. — Marina Warner

The 2-week delay of her letters had caused me to keep a distrustful eye on Hallie, like a star so many light years away it could have exploded long ago while we still watched its false shine. — Barbara Kingsolver

Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile. — Ray Stevenson

Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things. We talked about how animals don't just preserve the next generation; they typically preserve the environment for the ten-thousandth generation. While human industrial processes can produce Kevlar, it takes a temperature of thousands of degrees to do it, and the fiber is pulled through sulfuric acid. In contrast, a spider makes its silk - which per gram is several times stronger than steel - at room temperature in water. — William Powers

Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner." — P. J. O'Rourke

I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don't understand is that I've looked up to her for so many years. — Nicki Minaj

Our present political world-view, current in Germany, is based in general on the idea that creative, culture-creating force must indeed be attributed to the state. — Adolf Hitler

Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial administration has suffered. It is the poor, the sick, the ignorant, the powerless, and the hated who are executed. — Ramsey Clark