Charlotte Elliott (1789–1871) English poet, hymn writer, editor
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 231.
about where he comes up with his moves
Swedish tabloid Expressen, May 2002.
Attributed
Charlotte Elliott (1789–1871) English poet, hymn writer, editor
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 231.
“I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.”
Katherine Paterson Preacher's Boy
Source: Preacher's Boy
“I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned.”
Sandra Bullock (1964) American actress and producer
On her three step-children with husband Jesse G. James
Parade interview (2009)
Context: I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned. If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what real life is about.
Judith Viorst (1931) American writer
"Nothing but the Truth" http://books.google.com/books?id=uW5bAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+made+him+swear+he%27d+always+tell+me+nothing+but+the+truth+I+promised+him+I+never+would+resent+it+No+matter+how+unbearable+how+harsh+how+cruel+How+come+He+thought+I+meant+it%22, How Did I Get to be Forty & Other Atrocities (1976)
Qian Xuesen (1911–2009) Chinese rocket scientist
Qian (1955) to reporters after returning to China. Cited in: " Qian Xuesen dies at 98; rocket scientist helped establish Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-qian-xuesen1-2009nov01,0,2865408.story" Obituary Nov 1, 2009
“I have no imagination. I never plan a drawing, they just happen.”
Minnie Evans (1892–1987) American artist
Cited in: Paul Arnett, William Arnett (2000), Souls Grown Deep: The tree gave the dove a leaf. p. 308
George Marshall (1880–1959) US military leader, Army Chief of Staff
Essentials to Peace (1953)
Context: The points I have just discussed are, of course, no more than a very few suggestions in behalf of the cause of peace. I realize that they hold nothing of glittering or early promise, but there can be no substitute for effort in many fields. There must be effort of the spirit — to be magnanimous, to act in friendship, to strive to help rather than to hinder. There must be effort of analysis to seek out the causes of war and the factors which favor peace, and to study their application to the difficult problems which will beset our international intercourse. There must be material effort — to initiate and sustain those great undertakings, whether military or economic, on which world equilibrium will depend.
If we proceed in this manner, there should develop a dynamic philosophy which knows no restrictions of time or space. In America we have a creed which comes to us from the deep roots of the past. It springs from the convictions of the men and women of many lands who founded the nation and made it great. We share that creed with many of the nations of the Old World and the New with whom we are joined in the cause of peace.