Doris Lessing Quotes
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
Quotes to Explore
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To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
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All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
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The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
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I think that governments are going to get disrupted by the blockchain. I think in the same way that the Internet forced everyone to evolve, the Blockchain is going to change the game again.
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For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
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I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.
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Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In 'Terminator,' I was a cyborg with feelings; in 'Avatar,' I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in 'Clash of the Titans,' I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It's a bizarre job, but you explore yourself.
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I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
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I'm not one for going out on the town on Friday night, as I've never been a big drinker, so I like getting the rubbish jobs out of the way so we can enjoy our free time.
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When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.
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I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which is a huge deal in America - singing the National Anthem.
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Who likes the little little duckies in the pond? I do, I do, I do, a-chicka quack quack.
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Panurge auoyt la pulee en l'oreille.
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The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.
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Today's extension of the Edwards prohibition is the latest stage of prophylaxis built upon prophylaxis, producing a veritable fairyland castle of imagined constitutional restriction upon law enforcement.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Land has been an issue of great concern to our people.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Children are all foreigners.
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The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.
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I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.
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An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
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There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
