Melody Carlson Quotes

Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet.

Melody Carlson

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• Sometimes
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• I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Music
  • Different
  • Why

• I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Day

• Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • King
  • Grief
  • Queen

• Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Own
  • Too Much
  • Admit

• I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Never
  • My Life

• A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Idea
  • New

• I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • War
  • Feel
  • Mistakes

• 'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Grow
  • Finding
  • Exploring

• I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Political
  • Goal
  • Writer

• Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Defense
  • Million
  • Homeland

• It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Hard Work

• Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Real

• Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Hope
  • Courage

• I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

  

  Cynthia Weil

• That fat speed that I love, that sensation, that's what I want.

  

  Picabo Street

• I find it significant that, even though contemporary philosophy tends towards forms of determinism, in the wider culture people are deeply into naming, shaming and blaming each other. So we haven't lost that sense of conscience.

  

  John Cornwell
  • People
  • Culture
  • Lost

• Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.

  

  Armando Iannucci
  • Good

• When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.

  

  Pete Sampras
  • Game
  • Couple

• I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months.

  

  Jim Walton
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Dying

• Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet.

  

  Melody Carlson
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Imagine