Gardening has increased, community gardens have increased significantly. There are 50 percent more community gardens right here in Washington DC.
The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!
Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.
I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.
Smiling without good reason is demeaning.
Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler
I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine. ' That must be from the Bible. " "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.
We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.
They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd. . . but I am sustained by the consciousness of my imputed 'crime' being an honourable one
The Brazilian national identity is not one of João Gilberto Noll primary concerns. This does not mean social critique is absent: race, gender, and class relations are considered in Quiet Creature. And these are universal relational matters, not necessarily particular to any country. Some critics have commented that understanding the specific Brazilian political context of the novel is helpful for reading Quiet Creature. This may be true, but it's not prerequisite for understanding it.
That is the responsibility of the artist, of the actor, to inhabit these roles and put on somebody else's shoes. It's the responsibility and the gift of what it is I get the opportunity to do.