"Hes gone. Hes just gone."

-- Ally Carter

“I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates”

Source : "Eurogroup chief: 'I'm for secret, dark debates'" by Valentina Pop, euobserver.com. April 21, 2011.
“I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.”
“Our enemies have made the mistake that America's enemies always make. They saw liberty and thought they saw weakness. And now, they see defeat.”

Source : The World Will Always Remember 9/11, delivered 11 December 2011
“There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.”
“A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.”
“Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.”
“We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.”
“Michael Jackson was extraordinary, When we worked together on 'Bad,' I was in awe of his absolute mastery of movement on the one hand, and of the music on the other. Every step he took was absolutely precise and fluid at the same time. It was like watching quicksilver in motion. He was wonderful to work with, an absolute professional at all times, and it really goes without saying... a true artist. It will be a while before I can get used to the idea that he's no longer with us.”

You may also like:

Ally Condie
Novelist
David Levithan
Author
Gayle Forman
Writer
Holly Black
Writer
Matt de la Pena
Writer
Maureen Johnson
Author
Meg Cabot
Author
Sarah Dessen
Writer
Stephanie Perkins
Author