Pamela Sargent Quotes
I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
Quotes to Explore
-
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
-
If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
-
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
-
The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
-
Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.
-
I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.
-
In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
-
I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
-
If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
-
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-
Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
-
I lost my confidence.
-
I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.
-
It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
-
It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
-
They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
-
It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.
-
That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
-
When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic - or when you can scan a Shakespeare play for specific words or symbols - what opportunities might you miss to expand your thinking in unexpected ways?
-
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
-
I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip. Yet.
-
Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.
-
Self-knowledge - the bitterest knowledge of all and also the kind we cultivate least: what is the use of catching ourselves out, morning to night, in the act of illusion, pitilessly tracing each act back to its root, and losing case after case before our own tribunal?
-
I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
