Louise Sawyer Quotes

Well, we're not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here. ~ Callie Khouri

Men's desire - it stopped for nothing. Even then,even when I was stained the lurid color of waste -- even then someone wanted me. ~ Louise Wareham Leonard

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong. ~ Diane Sawyer

Some so weighty we carry them our whole lives. They can blight our very existence, or they can make us stronger. They can make us bitter or teach us compassion. They can drive us to do things we never thought ourselves capable of. Wonderful achievements, like becoming Chief Inspector and Commander. Or horrific things. Terrible dark deeds. ~ Louise Penny

Security against defeat implies defensive tactics; ability to defeat the enemy means taking the offensive. ~ Ralph D. Sawyer

A poem begins as a lump in the throat? Gamache asked Ruth. The elderly woman held his eyes ~ Louise Penny

I think maybe they're all right when they say there are some things I won't know anything about until I'm older. But if [love] makes you like to eat all kinds of wurst I'm not sure I'm going to like this. ~ Louise Fitzhugh

I think you might try leading your life as though it's just you. If he comes back and you know your life will be better with him, then great. But you'll also know you're enough on your own. ~ Louise Penny

And Beauvoir knew then the man was a saint. He's been touched by any number of medical men and women. All healers, all well intentioned, some kind, some rough. All made it clear they wanted him to live, but none had made him feel that his life was precious, was worth saving, was worth something. ~ Louise Penny

the answers lay in flesh and blood, not in a book and not in a report. And so often not even in things corporeal, but in something that couldn't be held and contained and touched. The answers to his questions lay in the murky past and in the emotions hidden there. The ~ Louise Penny

To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject. Torn between two loves, emotionally confused, the desire to fly an incurable disease eating out your life in the slow torture of frustration-she cannot be a simple, natural personality. ~ Louise Thaden

I create easily and effortlessly when I let my thoughts come from the loving space of my own heart. ~ Louise Hay

We have the time, we have the knowledge, and we have the wisdom to move out into the world with love and power. ~ Louise Hay

They spoke in semaphore, all punctuation unnecessary.
"You?"
"Great."
They'd trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence. ~ Louise Penny

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people. ~ Louise Brown

I don't feel body confident at all! Anything but, actually. ~ Louise Nurding

Wait a minute," Lexi says. "I want to get back to this concept of sexual dominant, because I dated a guy once that - ~ Sawyer Bennett

Maggie Louise sat in a hardback chair, holding her baby brother, Squinchy, and her eyes fell upon Agee. There was something about the eyes of Maggie Louise that caught him the first time they met. They were 'temperature less, keen, serene, and wise and pure gray eyes,' Agee said, and they seemed to look everywhere and see into things. To look into the eyes of Maggie Louise was 'scary as hell, and even more mysterious than frightening,' said Agee. She knew she'd like him and he her. ~ Dale Maharidge

I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and ... "
I looked shyly down. Which is pretty impressive to have done artistic laugh, quirky language and shyness all in the space of ten seconds. ~ Louise Rennison

I don't want to scare the guests with a big old guard dog," Tara protested.
"Safety is far more important than worrying about what anyone else thinks," Sawyer told her.
"You're right, of course." Tara looked at her sisters. "We'll think about both an alarm and a dog."
"We can borrow Izzy from Jax," Maddie said.
"Sure," Tara said. "And she can lick the next bad guy to death. ~ Jill Shalvis

If men could menstruate ... clearly, menstruation would become an enviable, boast-worthy, masculine event: Men would brag about how long and how much.... Sanitary supplies would be federally funded and free. Of course, some men would still pay for the prestige of such commercial brands as Paul Newman Tampons, Muhammed Ali's Rope-a-Dope Pads, John Wayne Maxi Pads, and Joe Namath Jock Shields - "For Those Light Bachelor Days." Gloria Steinem ~ Sawyer King

Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next. ~ Diane Sawyer

As I saw it,
all my mother's life, my father
held her down, like
lead strapped to her ankles.
She was
buoyant by nature;
she wanted to travel,
go to the theater, go to museums.
What he wanted
was to lie on the couch
with the Times
over his face,
so that death, when it came,
wouldn't seem a significant change. ~ Louise Gluck

High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell. ~ Louise Imogen Guiney

The women always get blamed. Have you noticed that? The wives are nags. The mistress is a bitch for betraying the sisterhood. And the men just fall through the cracks in between. We expect so little from our boys, don't we, Grace? ~ Louise O'Neill

Read. Read as if your life depended on it because your life as a novelist does. ~ Louise Doughty

They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh! ~ Louise Jameson

Puberty: the ultimate makeover. ~ Louise Gornall

Your intuition knows what to do. The trick is getting your head to shut up so you can hear. ~ Louise Smith

Change your mind and change your whole life experience. ~ C.G. Rousing

Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point out when something is badly done, or when there's no point of view. To build a brand you have to have something about you. If not personality, then some thought process. I'm 40, and they're young, so they're meant to be informing me. They should be bringing me a book or something that I haven't seen, not like some obscure chant book by Dominican monks, but an image of the way they see the world. ~ Louise Wilson

You are your own worst enemy. So to enjoy life, tell yourself to sit down, shut up, and hang on, because it's going to be one Hell of a ride! ~ A.M. Sawyer

Free will is not always the most important thing ~ Robert J. Sawyer

The Universe loves a grateful person. The more you thank Life, the more Life will give you to be thankful for. ~ Louise Hay

He went to the table and picked up a football magazine, opened it, thumbed through it, and was thumbing through it again when he said: "Scout, if there's ever anything that happens to you or something - you know - something you might not want to tell Atticus about - " "Huh?" "You know, if you get in trouble at school or anything - you just let me know. I'll take care of you." Jem sauntered from the livingroom, leaving Jean Louise wide-eyed and wondering if she were fully awake. ~ Harper Lee

I release all criticism. I only give out that which I wish to receive in return. My love and acceptance of others is mirrored to me in every moment. ~ Louise Hay

Art is a guarantee of sanity. ~ Louise Bourgeois

As usual, the fickle, unreasoning world took Muff Potter to its bosom and fondled him as lavishly as it had abused him before. But that sort of conduct is to the world's credit; therefore it is not well to find fault with it. ~ Mark Twain

More than two decades after the birth of Louise Brown, and all the hysteria that surrounded her 'test tube' conception, we should know that institutions, not technologies, create dystopias. Artificially conceived children are everywhere, beloved by their parents, and they haven't radically altered our world. ~ Virginia Postrel

Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives. ~ Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I don't think it's that controversial. I'm really in favor of legalizing marijuana. I thought people would be more offended by [this series] than they are. I'm surprised they weren't. ~ Mary-Louise Parker

They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press. ~ Louise Jameson