My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
#quotes #shelby-foote #writing #books

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
#quotes #abdallah-ii-of-jordan #democracy

Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
#quotes #gilbert-k-chesterton #anarchism #government

The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
#quotes #michael-light #thinking

I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for. ~Brian Lamb
#quotes #brian-lamb #elections

If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
#quotes #elton-john #tony-blair #politics #labour-party #democrats

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
#quotes #ridley-scott #believe #movies

Your birthday will always be remembered in a special way, because you have brought so much happiness into the lives of those who are close to you. Happy birthday to you!
#birthday #cute

I only discovered the "Harry Potter" series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of "Harry Potter" didn't help much, and I fared poorly. ~Sonam Kapoor
#quotes #sonam-kapoor #harry-potter #reading

I adore clothes, they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished. ~Anne Robinson
#quotes #anne-robinson #clothing #mother

Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
#quotes #michel-de-certeau #past #history #stories

Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
#quotes #sue-grafton #children #schooling

Eating people is wrong. ~Michael Flanders
#quotes #michael-flanders #eating

I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
#quotes #robert-smith #achievement

I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people. ~Tia Carrere
#quotes #tia-carrere #trust

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
#quotes #william-beveridge #democracy

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace. ~M. Scott Peck
#quotes #m-scott-peck #community #acceptance #world #peace

From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that is fantastic for me. ~Stephen Chow
#quotes #stephen-chow #movies

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
#quotes #eric-alterman #media #newspapers

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary. ~Ben Nelson
#quotes #ben-nelson #constitution #freedom #liberty #amendment

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
#proverbs #zen-proverbs #buddhism

We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
#quotes #valerie-simpson #entertainment #black

The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
#quotes #richard-asher #haematology #medicine

I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
#quotes #gordon-waller #personality

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
#quotes #caroline-knapp #shyness #nature #interaction