A Quotes
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“Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.”
“Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and perhaps even self-doubt because there aren't that many who've gone before you. And I think that the most powerful tool we can have is to be clear about our intent. To know what it is we want to do rather than going into institutions thinking that the institution is going to frame for us.”
“Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.”
“Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.”
“Any woman with kinky textured hair - can wear it, love it and manage it. She only needs the right tools, inspiration and motivation.”
“Any woman would have to be dead not to be attracted to the walking mass of sexy that was Erik MacGregor.”
Source: Love Potions
“Any woman's death diminishes me.”
“Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.”
“Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled.”
“ANY word that follows "I Am" is Spiritual error.”
“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
“Any words of greeting Leo had intended to say vanished instantly. His gaze traveled slowly over her. She was like one of the exquisite feminine images painted on bandboxes or displayed in print shops. The pristine perfection of her made him long to unwrap her, like a bonbon done up in a neat paper twist.
Leo's silence went on so long that Catherine was forced to speak again. "I'm ready for the outing. Where are we going?"
"I can't remember," Leo said, still staring.”
Source: Married by Morning
“Any words to say before you die?'
I came up with a plethora of curses, but I instead looked at Tamlin. He didn't react- his features like stone. I wished that I could glimpse his face- if only for a moment. But all I needed to see were those green eyes.
'I love you,' I said. 'No matter what she says about it, no matter if it's only with my insignificant human heart. Even when they burn my body, I'll love you.' My lips trembled, and my vision clouded before several warm tears slipped down my chilled face. I didn't wipe them away.
He didn't react- he didn't even grip the arms of his throne. I supposed that was his way of enduring it, even if it made my chest cave in. Even if his silence killed me.
Amarantha smiled sweetly. 'You'll be lucky my darling, if we even have enough left of you to burn.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Any work done with love - be it a photo or a meal or a painting - always looks so pretty, because love is a master of creating magical beauties!”
“Any work I do I think is important...like in acting there are no small parts- only small actors.”
“Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.”
“Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.”
Source: The Journals
“Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.”
“Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.”
“Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.”
“Any work of art dignifies life.”
“Any work of art is half of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you.”
Source: Timequake
“Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you're doing, what you're thinking, and what you're expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes.”
“Any work of art must first of all tell a story.”
“Any work of art represents a series of conscious choices on the part of the artist - what color to paint, what note to play, what word to use - in that artist's attempt to share what is in his or her soul. The audience is free to accept or reject those choices; it is emphatically not free to substitute its own.”
“Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.”
“Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.”
“Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.”
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
“Any work of love brings a person face to face with God.”
“Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.”
“Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.”
“Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.”
“Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.”
“Any work you do, do it the best you can and achieve the maximum result.”
“Any worker that takes a job in high altitude astronomy needs to be prepared to lose their mental and physical health, and possibly to develop gender issues.”
“Any working cartoonist will tell you this, anybody who's working in a creative field: at some point, it's a job. You have deadlines. I think, for over a year, I refused to make them for publications, because I only wanted to make them when I wanted to make them. But at some point, I was like, "This is crazy, you have an opportunity to be a professional cartoonist.”
“Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour, rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.”
“Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.”
Source: Conversations with Norman Mailer
“any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.”
Source: From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch
“Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you, the other person clears his throat and dives into his own writing experiences.”
Source: The snake pit
“Any writer knows that what's left out is as essential, if not more so, than what's there. Unlearning works that way.”
“Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.”
“Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.”
Source: Living in Hope and History
“Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.”
Source: The complete prose of Marianne Moore
“Any writer takes inspiration from what they read and watch, and over their career works on forming their own voice. I think it was probably Stephen King who made me want to become a writer.”
“Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.”
“Any writer who could handle all these different voices would deserve high praise, but to do so without any sense of jarring or incoherence is an extraordinary accomplishment.”
“Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.”
“Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.”
Source: Never Come Morning