"our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass."

-- Bonnie Friedman

#Writing Quotes #Finest Quotes #Grass Quotes

“I really enjoyed doing the voice of Nose Marie on the cartoon series Pound Puppies. Fun, FUN cast.”
“However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.”
“If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.”

Source : Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book/Living By the Book Workbook Set”, p.13, Moody Publishers
“People need their history like they need air and food.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.
“A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.”
“Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.”

Source : Haki R. Madhubuti (1990). “Black men: obsolete, single, dangerous? : Afrikan American families in transition : essays in discovery, solution, and hope”, Third World Pr
“Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.”
“Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.”

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