"The word "nice" makes me break out in hives. When someone tells me that they think my work is nice I want to take knitting needles and shove them in my ear canals. I have the same almost physical reaction to the word "interesting." The word is vague enough to mean anything and nothing. Like nice, interesting means the reader had zero connection and zero emotional response to anything in the work."

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Source : Source: www.salon.com

Gina Ochsner

#Nice Quotes #Mean Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“Understanding the times means understanding the course of history and civilization, as well as understanding the present situation. If we understand how God guides the development of human history, we can begin to understand the therapies needed to correct the problems of our times.”
“What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.”

Source : FaceBook post by Etta James from Jul 30, 2013
“Though the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If you doubt this, I congratulate you on not having a television.”
“I could paint these mountains the way they look, but it isn't how I see them.”
“Vice is basically the love of failure.”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.118, Profile Books
“Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.”
“When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.”
“Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.”

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