Leigh Brackett Quotes
There was a smell in the air now. The hot, close, frightening small of mob; mob excited, hungry, dreaming blood and death. The primitive in Stark knew that sweaty acridity all too well.
Leigh Brackett
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
Tawakkol Karman
The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
Lamar Alexander
If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
Eckhart Tolle
It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
Warren Christopher
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
J. R. R. Tolkien
A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
Walter de La Mare
It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
W. Averell Harriman
Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
Fareed Zakaria
Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
Karen Traviss
I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
Paloma Elsesser
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
Ralph Fiennes
America is a meritocracy.
P. J. O'Rourke
I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.
Harrison Ford
Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.
Kim Edwards
Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
Victor Hugo
These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political martial law into military martial law, the enemy betrays himself, becomes visible.
Ulrike Meinhof
There was a smell in the air now. The hot, close, frightening small of mob; mob excited, hungry, dreaming blood and death. The primitive in Stark knew that sweaty acridity all too well.
Leigh Brackett
