Jane Yolen Quotes

She hated to lie but she hated arguments even more.

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• Either war is obsolete, or men are.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Men
  • War
  • Either

• I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Politics
  • Strength

• I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Space
  • Years
  • Battle

• For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • Political
  • Respect

• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Disease
  • Environmental
  • Only

• There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • American
  • Strong
  • Community

• More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • Up
  • Work
  • American

• Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Different
  • Sing
  • Breath

• I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Try

• In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Policy
  • Views
  • Spectrum

• I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Practice

• With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Day

• Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Writing
  • Understand
  • Writer

• I'm not in the business of politics.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Business
  • Politics

• Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Jazz

• If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • America
  • Death
  • President

• There is etiquette in golf, but it's not any harder to learn than what to do at a dinner party. Actually, it's probably easier. And these days, there are a lot more women out there than there used to be. It's not like when I was young. I was always the only girl on the range.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Women
  • Girl
  • Party

• Also expressionistic filmmaking - making the audience feel like they were inside the characters' heads. And so we create all these different types of techniques to put the audience there.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Different
  • Audience
  • Filmmaking

• Some of our friends came and sat in with us, and it was just so much fun. We said, "Hey, let's do this once in a while." We did them every year for a while, then we took it on the road. We've done eighteen now, I think.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • American
  • House

• My Aunt Sheila was terrifying! She would put a napkin in her mouth and say, 'You've got something on your face, dear. Let me just scratch that off your face. Let me sand your cheek.'

  

  Billy Crystal
  • She
  • Aunt

• She hated to lie but she hated arguments even more.

  

  Jane Yolen
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