"Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Want Quotes

“Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work”
“Even wars, big conflicts that have drawn a lot of news coverage, sometimes seem to me to have a center that hasn't been described, that might yet be glimpsed if approached from some odd angle.”
“Some people say you can get hepatitis if you do coke with ones because they've been handled so much. But I tested that theory out for about a year, and I decided it's bullshit.”
“To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.”
“You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.”

Source : John Christopher (2015). “The Sword of the Spirits”, p.99, Simon and Schuster
“Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.”
“Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

You may also like:

Amy Tan
Film writer
Ann Patchett
Author
Betty Smith
Author
John Irving
Novelist
Margaret Atwood
Poet
Maya Angelou
Author
Sue Monk Kidd
Writer
Toni Morrison
Novelist
Wally Lamb
Author