Aminatta Forna Quote

When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS

I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might ...
GWEN IFILL

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because...
GERALDINE BROOKS

You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS

I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being ...
BENJAMIN BOOKER

I want consistency. Is there a double standard?
A CNN JOURNALIST

Discord is their business model.
A CNN JOURNALIST

I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was ...
MANDY MOORE

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I&#...
PETER JENNINGS

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist.
GLENN DANZIG

We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER

A great idea is like a fast moving train without brake & all contrary minds that crosses its path wi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS

I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS

He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS

I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS

People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL

You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW

I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a po...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straig...
SALLY MANN

He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a c...
DEREK JACOBI

Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga,
Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata...
HUSEYN RAZA

I was so appalled. They were kind of waiting for Terry to walk out and perhaps take a poop or someth...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thoug...
TRAVIS FIMMEL

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

When I made 'Eight Below,' they wanted me to shoot digital, and I didn't want to do it b...
FRANK MARSHALL

Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE

If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA

Everyone's weird, I'm just a bit bizarre.
PENNIE LILLIAN

I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups be...
MORRISSEY

The older I get, for me it's about fear. If I read something and it scares the hell out of me, t...
ALAINA HUFFMAN

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS

Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER

Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY

Initially I was treated roughly. Once they knew I was a journalist, I was treated very well.
JAMES BRANDON

It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER

I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarc...
JOAQUIN PHOENIX

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the...
BILL NIGHY

Love, what you DO, Respect, who DOES for you, Appreciate, who DOES for others, Salute, who DOES for ...
PRITISH PATTANAIK

There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prem...
AL JOURGENSEN

A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE

There's the 'right way' and the 'usual way'.
Folks tend to confuse both.
The right way i...
UFUOMA APOKI

Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR.

they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping?'
'You're bitching about ...
LETA BLAKE

I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me want to be a journalist - I go off and explore it for a bit, rather than mapping out a plot and then filling in the research.

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I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me want to be a journalist - I go off and explore it for a bit, rather than mapping out a plot and then filling in the research.

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