To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports.
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Related Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ... RON DARIAN A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'... UNKNOWN The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi... C. JOYBELL C. 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 History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday CHRISTOPHER FUDGE is a broken man an outlaw?" "More or less." Brienne answered. Septon Meribald ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy... HUBERT SELBY JR. People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study... APURVA GAGLANI Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Be yourself and people will like you. JEFF KINNEY The best person I know is Myself. JEFF KINNEY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON There's the 'right way' and the 'usual way'. Folks tend to confuse both. The right way i... UFUOMA APOKI How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Endeavour to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gr... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good quote is far better than the best selling books. ANUJ SOMANY Endeavor to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gre... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is good to appreciate anothers good deeds, but let not your good deeds be known to others lest th... APURVA GAGLANI If given an opportunity to head an establishment,resite this "A good name will last better for my fa... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you have inherited a bad name from your parent,edit it,by becoming good,but if you are lucky to h... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Diamond & platinum are the obstacles that always stand in the way of a good name. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Let us endeavor to have a good name,for in so doing we are sowing good seeds,that will one day be ha... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) During times of sour or bad relationship a good person will always exhibit a pleasant character. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is a more bankable & valuable inheritance than diamond & platinum. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name will open doors that diamond & platinum dare not. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name can open ways for your great grand children. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is the only insurance we need against the monster called poverty. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The best inheritance a man can leave for his children is not diamond & platinum,but a good name. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) All the riches in life are incomparable to a good name. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Even if other things remains unspoken in your life,a good name will continually speak for you, even ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Min... SAM ROCKWELL I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home ... ROSS KEMP Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... DEBASISH MRIDHA These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection.... MAY-BRITT MOSER Ask God to use you. Ask Him to show you how you can be a blessing everywhere you go. Keep honoring H... GERMANY KENT Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, ... ANEURIN BARNARD If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... FLANNERY O'CONNOR What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA We should be ready for a change. DEYTH BANGER Did you see more glass? J.D. SALINGER She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ... J.D. SALINGER As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We... BRENE BROWN I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference. MARILYN MANSON Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't h... PHIL NIEKRO A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to... MALCOLM COWLEY It’s something I never knew about her. How bizarre that you can know your entire life, see their m... KELSEY SUTTON I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying t... MAYA ANGELOU My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant t... JEFFREY BROWN There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL Being a teenager, it's so hard to find foundation that's good for your skin for everyday wea... BECKY G We've come a long, long way. We haven't killed a coal miner in a state of Illinois coal mine for two... MIKE WOODS I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else... DANIEL RADCLIFFE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. ... JEFF KINNEY Every coal miner I talked to had, in his history, at least one story of a cave-in. 'Yeah, he got... JEANNE MARIE LASKAS It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory. QUINTILIAN I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal. PETER COOK I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good descripti... JOHN THAW To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's lik... CAM GIGANDET You know that book 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking', ... JESSICA RAINE When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not... JOSH HOMME Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES To be lazy is stupid, to be a muscle machine is a crazy thing... and how far we go or father we all ... DEYTH BANGER Australians have a fantastic sense of humour and incredible taste. I was there for 'Bend It Like... GURINDER CHADHA I love the idea of farm to table and farmer's markets. I enjoy a meal more if I know I'm eat... HAYLIE DUFF It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable. CAM GIGANDET I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, &... MADELEINE ALBRIGHT I enjoy getting riled up, and nothing's gonna do that for you like a good scary movie. SOPHIA BUSH 'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of'... is fascinatin... DAN STEVENS What you taken for granted, could mean a lot to another. ZENG HAN JUN Have & Have Not SAVAN SOLANKI I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as ... FRANK MILLER
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SUSAN SONTAG I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. SUSAN SONTAG The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. SUSAN SONTAG Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. SUSAN SONTAG Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists... SUSAN SONTAG Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. SUSAN SONTAG What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine w... SUSAN SONTAG Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. SUSAN SONTAG It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less intere... SUSAN SONTAG Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to ... SUSAN CHEEVER Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the partic... SUSAN ORLEAN Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running w... SUSAN LUCCI Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, comm... SUSAN VREELAND Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful ... SUSAN CAIN Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessive... SUSAN CAIN Advertising is very simple in a lot of ways. Advertisers go where the users go, and users are choosi... SUSAN WOJCICKI These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a biparti... SUSAN COLLINS There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within. SUSAN ANTON Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the s... SUSAN SONTAG Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when yo... SUSAN ISAACS Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday aftern... SUSAN ERTZ For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of ... SUSAN SONTAG By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living ... SUSAN LIEBERMAN I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades a... SUSAN CHOI Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and la... SUSAN ORLEAN The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion,... SUSAN STRAIGHT When you think of Yahoo, they had a shot to be what Vox is doing, in terms of taking content and dis... SUSAN DECKER My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance compa... SUSAN STRAIGHT My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happ... SUSAN HAMPSHIRE If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more tree... SUSAN GEORGE The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured m... SUSAN SONTAG When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. SUSAN SARANDON In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have ... SUSAN WIGGS