Flannery O'Connor Quotes
It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.Flannery O'Connor
Quotes to Explore
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
Walter Huston -
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
E. Stanley Jones -
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
Zadie Smith -
I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
Katee Sackhoff -
Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
Adam Oates -
I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
Natasha Lyonne
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
Tamsin Egerton -
As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
Sam Palladio -
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
Warren E. Burger -
Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
Eartha Kitt -
I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
Hansika Motwani
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
Walter Gropius -
Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
Zoe Cassavetes -
I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
Laura Linney -
If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
Randall Kennedy -
I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
J. Michael Bishop -
We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
Viktor Orban
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We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.
Christine Gregoire -
Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
Ma Ying-jeou -
Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.
Amy Lowell -
I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.
Ben Affleck -
I care about Bahrain.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.
Flannery O'Connor