Alan Weisman Quotes
But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.
Alan Weisman
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
Iain Banks
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller
I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
Dan Brown
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
Sam Raimi
I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
Lana Wood
A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
Parker Stevenson
Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.
Sacha Guitry
I don't look too far ahead.
Xander Berkeley
My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth.
Plato
A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.
Chalmers Johnson
Some of us shorten our names or our noses or both... We Jews can be extremely neurotic and are inclined to become easily depressed. Most Jews seldom say, 'Have a nice day' or even have one. To be honest, I've never heard a Jew say that. We're just not that optimistic. Life is neither a bed of roses nor a bowl of cherries.
Gene Saks
But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.
Alan Weisman
