Susan J. Fowler (Susan Joy Fowler) Quotes

The most powerful way to tell the truth is with documentation. Then nobody can say it’s a ‘he says, she says’ situation.

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• With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Different
  • Team

• Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Potential

• If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Business
  • Future
  • Simple

• God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Believe
  • Die

• War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • War
  • Courage
  • Israel

• The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Team
  • Best
  • Step

• I very much admire Uri Ariel. I think he's a man of principles, and effective, and I love him.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Think
  • Man
  • Principles

• The truth sustains me.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Truth
  • Me
  • Sustains

• The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Life
  • War
  • Death

• I just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Travel
  • Working
  • Heels

• I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • World
  • School
  • High

• Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Know
  • Travel

• I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • Comedy
  • Ability
  • Timing

• The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • More

• The glamour of Hollywood has never worn thin for me.

  

  Irene Dunne

• It (i. e., advertising) was like horoscopes-enough blind stabs and some of them are bound to strike a target.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • People
  • Violence
  • Poverty

• When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • School
  • Age
  • Dark

• He shook his head. "Some people think that they like music, but they have no idea what it's really about. They're kindding themselves. Then there are people who feel strongly about music, but just aren't listening to the right stuff. They're misguided. And then there are people like me." "People like you," I said. "What kind of people are those?" "The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it. They're enlightened."

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Kind

• I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People
  • Courage
  • Surviving

• The most powerful way to tell the truth is with documentation. Then nobody can say it’s a ‘he says, she says’ situation.

  

  Susan J. Fowler
  • Truth
  • Way
  • Documentation