Madeleine L'Engle Quotes
A book, too, can be a star, 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,' a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
Madeleine L'Engle
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
W. Bruce Cameron
Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
Salma Hayek
People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
Lana Del Rey
I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
Damien Hirst
I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
Cameron Dallas
I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
E. L. James
You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
Calvin Coolidge
I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
Rachel Ward
Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
LaToya Jackson
I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.
Ed Speleers
I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
Gayle Forman
I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.
Roger Daltrey
The Who
Consider-We are bornNot with purpose,But with potential.
Octavia E. Butler
The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.
Andrew Davidson
Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.
David Lynch
The Platters
Sometimes my readers ask me what else they should read, and I recommend Sebald.
Anthony Doerr
A book, too, can be a star, 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,' a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
Madeleine L'Engle
