Anne McCaffrey Quotes

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

Anne McCaffrey

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• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Growing

• Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • People
  • Government
  • Rich

• I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Home
  • Living
  • Once

• The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Life
  • Best
  • Child

• For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Whatever

• Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Love
  • Years
  • Anniversary

• If I'm thrifting, and I find this great dress, but it won't fit me, and I won't grow into it because I'm impossibly tiny, I don't want to let it sit there. I'll buy it and send it to a friend.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Great
  • Me
  • Friend

• I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Money
  • Way
  • Nice

• Suddenly she knew. She knew! Love. That was what she had that IT did not have. She had Mrs. Whatsit's love, and her father's, and mother's, and the real Charles Wallace's love, and the twins', and Aunt Beast's. And she had her love for them. But how could she use it? What was she meant to do?

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Real
  • She
  • Mother

• of English It's your language. I'm just trying to use it.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Trying
  • English

• What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Worry
  • Silence

• It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Time

• At the end of the day, we are so many digits in the machine. The point is – are these digits stronger than the competitors' digits?

  

  Lee Kuan Yew

• It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Deep

• When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.

  

  Matt Cameron Pearl Jam
  • Up

• Everything needs to work at the same time. But what keeps society vibrant permanently is jobs, industry, business, and stuff like that. It pays for everything else. If you just build affordable housing, and those people don't have jobs, it'll no longer be affordable soon. So you really have to build around the business community.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Life
  • May
  • Animal

• We wince at the brutality of parents who ship their young kids around to perform for adults at the expense of their childhood - but, then, that was Mozart’s childhood, and though by the end Mozart may have wished for less attention as a kid performer and more as a grownup composer, he never for a moment wished not to be Mozart.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • May
  • Kids
  • Parents

• He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

  

  Ellen Glasgow

• It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

  

  Clive Owen
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Movie

• In Hollywood, the cameraman lights the star. In Europe, he lights the set.

  

  King Vidor
  • Star

• The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

  

  Anne McCaffrey