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Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
Daily Telegram #1172, Will Rogers Sees No Value In All The Time We Save (28 April 1930)
Daily telegrams
“I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.”
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) French artist
Quote in Degas' letter to the sculptor Paul-Albert Bartolomé, January 1886; as cited in 'Performing Fine Arts: Dance as a Source of Inspiration in Impressionism, by Johannis Tsoumas http://rupkatha.com/dance-in-impressionism/ <br class="br">1876 - 1895
“Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song
Source: The Last Song
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Gifts
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
"Sisterhood" in New York Magazine (20 December 1971), p. 49
Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“If something wants to be a story, it will be.”
Scarlett Thomas book The End of Mr. Y
Source: The End of Mr. Y
“A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.”
Frank Capra (1897–1991) Sicilian-born American film director
“There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.”
Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“you can always find something you want.”
Sophie Kinsella book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic
Jonathan Haidt (1963) American psychologist
Source: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)
Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451
Usher II (1950)
The Martian Chronicles (1950)
Source: Fahrenheit 451
Context: They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressures; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.
Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist
Source: Fourth Comings
Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian
Variant: I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought - just maybe - we were off to a good start.
Source: The Last Olympian
“That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted
Source: Haunted (2005)
“Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.”
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women.”
Edgar Wallace (1875–1932) British crime writer, journalist and playwright
New York Times, 24 January 1932, sec.8, p. 6
“Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”
Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006) American playwright
Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary
“God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.”
Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist
“You don't always need proof to know something.”
Patti Callahan Henry American writer
Source: Between The Tides
“When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.”
Cornelia Funke (1958) author
Source: Fearless
“All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything.”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: The Lost Herondale
“Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.”
Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream
Source: Requiem for a Dream
Piers Anthony (1934) English-American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres
Wendelin Van Draanen (1965) American writer
Source: Sammy Keyes And the Dead Giveaway
“Getting something and having the wits to use it… those are two different things.”
Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth
Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Love in the Afternoon
“There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.”
Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
Mama, Act III
A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
Context: There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. Have you cried for that boy today? I don't mean for yourself and for the family 'cause we lost the money. I mean for him; what he's been through and what it done to him. Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning — because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so. When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.
Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic
Notebook entry, London, 1889-05-12.
“I saw something nasty in the woodshed.”
Stella Gibbons book Cold Comfort Farm
Source: Cold Comfort Farm
