William Jennings Bryan Quotes
The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
Quotes to Explore
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I usually say I left puberty at 58.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything.
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Sometimes it is difficult to remember, but other times it is very easy to remember. Sleep deprivation is the killer.
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People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.
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Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.
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The Comrade Wolf knows whom to eat, as the saying goes. It knows whom to eat and is not about to listen to anyone, it seems.
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There should be no thought of burdens in the mysterious interweaving of one life with another. It must be that the weakness in oneself which one thought pressed most heavily upon others to their harm was in reality a blessing to them, while on the occasions when one thought oneself doing great good, one was as likely as not doing great harm; if self-congratulations were present, sure to be doing harm.
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
