L. Frank Baum Quotes

I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

L. Frank Baum

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• Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Sometimes
  • Fake
  • Credit

• No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Writing
  • Equal
  • Close

• Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Nature
  • Game
  • Small

• I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Afraid
  • Dragons
  • Ghosts

• You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • God
  • Believe
  • Know

• No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Man
  • Govern

• I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Real
  • Want
  • Fashion

• Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

  

  Ram Dass
  • You
  • Me
  • Saying

• Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Father
  • Passionate
  • Uncle

• One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Good
  • Effort
  • Priority

• I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.

  

  Wale
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Passion

• The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Thought

• I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Long
  • Live

• I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Crazy
  • Right
  • Wrong

• I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Life
  • Music
  • My Life

• I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don't survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • May
  • Myself

• I love being toned and having muscle; it's so sexy and beautiful. And I owe it 100 percent to yoga.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Beautiful
  • Yoga
  • Sexy

• Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Game
  • Like
  • Feelings

• I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

  

  Enid Blyton
  • Children
  • Interesting

• American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Long
  • American
  • War

• The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Limits
  • Movements
  • Banks

• Youk'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?

  

  Joel Chandler Harris

• It's like Hollywood. The stage is set. All you're going to see out there is a bunch of cameras flashing, a lot of fans sitting back relaxing and waiting to see who the best team is going to be.

  

  Chuck Darby
  • Team
  • Fans
  • Stage

• I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

  

  L. Frank Baum