"When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all."

-- Jack Prelutsky

#Children Quotes #Writing Quotes #Voice Quotes

“I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.”

Source : "Philip Treacy On His New Hat Range For Thomson: ‘I’m A Specialist In Divas’". Grazia Daily Interview, uk.style.yahoo.com. May 31, 2013.
“It takes me a long time to understand my work myself, so I name them in the order that they're created.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If we flaunt our wealth, we make enemies of people who have only their inner strength to get them through. And those are the people I want on my side.”
“If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.”
“God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business.”

Source : Leonard Sweet (2009). “So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church”, p.55, David C Cook
“[T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?”
“The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror.”
“I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am like," and the person seeing the picture says in return, 'You know a lot but you don't know half of what I know.'”

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