Zanti Magnolia Quotes & Sayings

We have never been to this day, nor have we ever been to tomorrow, so ... choose how you will approach it, with eyes and arms open or with eyes shut and arms crossed. We get to choose every day. — Richard Morin

Fall down again, Bella?'
No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face. — Stephenie Meyer

Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed.
There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules ... — Umberto Eco

I need you to know that I'm not going anywhere. I'll always be here when you come home. There will always be an us. — Krista Ritchie

Similarly, the press never tested many of the assumptions about WMDs. One of the great myths about the WMD issue is that everybody believed Iraq had them. Well, that's not true. There were a number of people in the intelligence community and the State Department who were skeptical, and many analysts in the Department of Energy were dubious about Iraq's nuclear capability. There were also people like Scott Ritter who were saying quite accurately what was going on. — Seymour Hersh

As many frustrated Americans who have joined the Tea Party realize, we cannot stand against big government at home while supporting it abroad. We cannot talk about fiscal responsibility while spending trillions on occupying and bullying the rest of the world. We cannot talk about the budget deficit and spiraling domestic spending without looking at the costs of maintaining an American empire of more than 700 military bases in more than 120 foreign countries. We cannot pat ourselves on the back for cutting a few thousand dollars from a nature preserve or an inner-city swimming pool at home while turning a blind eye to a Pentagon budget that nearly equals those of the rest of the world combined. — Ron Paul

The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder. — Kenny Rogers

And this is why people believe in God, isn't it? Jonah wondered. Because we can tell there's something bigger out there that we're part of. Because we can tell that there's something more to all of us, and more to all of our lives. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

Whenever you make a big effort and take risks, getting good results and points is very rewarding. — Dani Pedrosa