Jane Yolen Quotes
Myths are stories that explain a natural phenomenon. Before humans found scientific explanations for such things as the moon and the sun and rainbows, they tried to understand them by telling stories.Jane Yolen
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
Camilla Lackberg -
As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
Natalie Gulbis -
That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
Tao Okamoto -
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel Johnson
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
Mandy Moore -
Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
Taylor Swift -
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam Rayburn -
I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!
Camille Pissarro -
North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.
Nadia Giosia -
I come from a pretty strange family.
Illeana Douglas
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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
Wallace Shawn -
I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
Edmund Phelps -
If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
Nathan Myhrvold -
You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.
Caprice Bourret -
In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
Nate Silver -
Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
Ivan Turgenev -
I have an orthodox style that a southpaw is confused with me.
Bernard Hopkins -
People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony. Very senior figures tell me their hairstylist wants to do my hair for free. It's surprising. People from television are interested almost exclusively in aspects of my hair and my hairdresser.
Ada Yonath -
If you transmit the rays of the sun through a hole in the shape of a star you will see a beautiful effect of perspective in the spot where the sun's rays fall.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Myths are stories that explain a natural phenomenon. Before humans found scientific explanations for such things as the moon and the sun and rainbows, they tried to understand them by telling stories.
Jane Yolen