We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us enjoying writing it and reading it. So it's wonderful to be around people who love short fiction too - it's like hanging around with my tribe.
At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq.
Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.
A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such. ' 'No. I didn't. ' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have. '
Well, it came from the White House, it came from people around the White House. It came from all over. I got a call on 911. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, 'You got to say this is connected. This is state-sponsored terrorism. This has to be connected to Saddam Hussein.
Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart. . . and that's saying something!
We [ the Desaparecidos ] are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.
I remember as a kid, I was improvising and making little trophies out of different materials and going in front of the mirror, lifting the trophies and saying 'Nole was the champion!'
As your governor, you’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying ‘Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell. ’
I never want to be winking at the audience and saying, "This character is really a nice guy. "
To suddenly be a hero on a world basis was hard for me to understand. God gave me a gift. I got the chance to use it. I didn't think I deserved what people were saying. My talent is just more visible than theirs.
We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.
It was if the city knew about Percy's dream of Gaea. It knew that the earth goddess intended on razing all human civilization, and this city, which had stood for thousands if years, was saying back at her: You wanna dissolve this city, Dirt Face? Give it a shot. In other words, it was the Coach Hedge of mortal cities- only taller.
Brace yourself! If we take in what the Holy Father is saying in his Theology of the Body, we will never view ourselves, view others, view the Church, the Sacraments, grace, God, heaven, marriage, the celibate vocation. . . we will never view the world the same way again.
I don't remember, at 19, someone giving me a golden key and saying, 'Welcome to Hollywood; which job would you like?'
If we look to the south, to Iran, which cannot be "accused" of excess democratic zeal - it goes without saying that the unstable situation does not prepare the ground for a democratic development.
There's something going on and it's bad. And I'm saying we have to get to the bottom of it.
Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be. ) - Mandalorian saying
To say that I enjoyed writing. . . is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.
There's all the difference in the world between humbly saying "I want to find more light from Scripture than we have yet had" and saying "I'm going to prove the rest of the Church wrong and do something totally new!"