Quotes of: Helen-keller Keyword

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

Colson Whitehead

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

Rick Baker

I don't know what I'm proudest of. The fact that my kids still talk to me.

Alan Arkin

Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.

Annie Besant

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

Annie Besant

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

Annie Besant

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

Bernard Cornwell

Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.

Daniel Goleman

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Orison Swett Marden

We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.

Sam Harris

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

Stephen Leacock

Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.

W. G. Sebald

Humans have a proven track record in taking over planes by the use of threats, which work because the legitimate pilots value their own lives and those of their passengers.

Richard Dawkins

Dante Hicks: Have you become so embittered that you now feel the need to attack the handicapped? Randal Graves: What handicap? They guy's just in a wheelchair, it's not like he's Anne Frank or something. Dante Hicks: Anne Frank? Randal Graves: Yeah, ...

Clerks II

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell Of saddest thought.

The Complete Poems

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

Ghost Story

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

The Beauty Myth

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.

The Beauty Myth

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

The Beauty Myth

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

The Beauty Myth

Non che non creda in Dio. Ci credo. Solo non sono sicura di credere nel Paradiso, almeno non quanto credo nella biblioteca pubblica.

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple