Budu Wadan Quotes

We must create our children alive and fragile and pulsing with the hot blood that is so easy, so terribly easy to spill. It ~ Elizabeth Bear

The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose. ~ Natalie Babbitt

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows. ~ George Eliot

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse. ~ John Quincy Adams

I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time. ~ Rebecca Pidgeon

I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director. ~ John Frankenheimer

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play. ~ Keith Emerson

Just as the rag doll wanted to be an eagle, the donkey a lion and the monkey a queen, the zero put on airs and pretended to be a digit. ~ Robert D. Kaplan

As long as a single center has a monopoly on the use of coercion, one has a state rather than a self-governed society. ~ Elinor Ostrom