Nora Roberts (Eleanor Marie Robertson) Quotes

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

Nora Roberts

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• What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Life
  • Art
  • Subversive

• When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Job
  • Play
  • Thought

• The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Different
  • True
  • Nature

• The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Done
  • Job
  • Effort

• Necessity makes even the timid brave.

  

  Sallust
  • Brave
  • Necessity
  • Even

• I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • Writing
  • View

• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Wealth

• To change what you get, you must change who you are.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • You
  • Change
  • Must

• My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • More

• As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • True
  • Opportunity
  • Peace

• Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Make
  • Navigate
  • Maze

• The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Leadership
  • More
  • Leaders

• I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Internet

• The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Good
  • Women

• In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Change
  • Opinion
  • Stupid

• Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Game
  • Works
  • Smiles

• Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Ultimate
  • Guns

• If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Up
  • Good
  • Word

• Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Something
  • Vulgarity

• Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

  

  Richard Powers
  • Prayer
  • Secular

• Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.

  

  Mari Evans
  • People
  • Singing
  • Magic

• Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

  

  Nora Roberts
  • Love
  • Practice
  • Magic