"I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didnt have any phone service and we didnt have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed."

-- Kathryn Stockett

#New York Quotes #Writing Quotes #Phones Quotes

“If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.”
“Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, because whoever is silent dissents.”

Source : Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, Maria Velho da Costa (1975). “The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters”, p.349
“Fred Astaireâ€™s got nothing on me.”
“Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along.”
“The mortality of those who dig minerals is very great, and women who marry men of this sort marry again and again. According to Agricola, at the mines in the Carpathian mountains, women have been known to marry seven times.”

Source : Bernardino Ramazzini (1983). “Diseases of workers”
“You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction”

Source : "Gurley and Om" by Fred Wilson, www.businessinsider.com. December 13, 2012.
“I have such a little face.”
“One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.”

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