Afghan Girl

Ice blue eyes that look to the morning sky as I knit the pieces and remnants ...
EDNA STEWART Because we put a lot of love in our biscuits, we take a lot of time and patience with 'em, and I hav...
EDNA STEWART Dr. King was always, you know, we were glad to see him come to Chicago. I mostly catered when I star...
EDNA STEWART In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the ...
EDNA O'BRIEN Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for ei...
EDNA O'BRIEN I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition b...
EDNA O'BRIEN I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is i...
EDNA O'BRIEN The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
EDNA O'BRIEN Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
EDNA O'BRIEN Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
EDNA O'BRIEN My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flo...
EDNA O'BRIEN Writing is like carrying a fetus.
EDNA O'BRIEN Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garmen...
EDNA FERBER A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
EDNA FERBER Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to strugg...
EDNA FERBER Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
EDNA FERBER Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover ...
EDNA FERBER A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity...
EDNA FERBER A closed mind is a dying mind.
EDNA FERBER It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then...
EDNA FERBER Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to...
EDNA FERBER Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
EDNA FERBER The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. -Edna O'Brien.
EDNA O'BRIEN Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered ...
EDNA FERBER Our system is not one of justice, but of law.
EDNA BUCHANAN In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the ...
EDNA O'BRIEN Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until de...
EDNA FERBER Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It ...
EDNA FERBER A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
EDNA FERBER America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourcef...
EDNA FERBER Roast Beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the ...
EDNA FERBER I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to se...
EDNA FERBER I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
EDNA O'BRIEN Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
EDNA FERBER But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. L...
EDNA FERBER Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
EDNA FERBER In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature.
EDNA O'BRIEN If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with Ameri...
EDNA FERBER Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
EDNA FERBER True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
EDNA BUCHANAN Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
EDNA FERBER Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
EDNA FERBER A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity...
EDNA FERBER America / rather, the United States / seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful...
EDNA FERBER I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must he somewhat poisoned by emotio...
EDNA FERBER A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle
EDNA FERBER When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen,...
EDNA O'BRIEN Our system is not one of justice, but of law
EDNA BUCHANAN Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garmen...
EDNA FERBER We had no clue what was happening, what it was. In fact, if it happened again, I'm not sure I'd know...
EDNA BEECHRAFT Friends are the family we choose for ourselves
EDNA BUCHANAN My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. I...
EDNA O'BRIEN In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the ...
EDNA O'BRIEN I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition betwe...
EDNA O'BRIEN Inebriations of love, shadows of love, fantasies of love, but never yet the one true love
EDNA O'BRIEN I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt
EDNA O'BRIEN Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to ...
EDNA FERBER Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little
EDNA FERBER Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lo...
EDNA FERBER Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the...
EDNA FERBER It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
EDNA FERBER A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently t...
EDNA FERBER It had hailed and it was just green, it was just absolutely green out there. I could hear the stuff ...
EDNA BEECHRAFT This is bigger than the three of us. We do not want to blow this ... bailing out is not an option.
EDNA SMITH And they want the church to show them a better way in which to live.
EDNA SMITH I like to think of it as a marriage in the biblical sense. We are leaving our families to form a new...
EDNA SMITH We're not the owner of the airport. The town is the owner and we're going to defer that decision to ...
EDNA RUANO That's good news for the Buffalo market because it shows demand is building for our cargo service an...
EDNA RUANO Our schedule planning folks are always looking at the markets we serve, and if we see the demand, we...
EDNA RUANO This is a good sign for Buffalo and the strength of the market.
EDNA RUANO Buffalo has been a growth market for us and now when expect it to be on the cargo side.
EDNA RUANO From 8:30 a.m. to noon, Southwest was closed for business due to fog.
EDNA RUANO We have earned the reputation of providing Latino professionals with the opportunity to find meaning...
EDNA RODRIGUEZ I got married here. I baptized my kids here. This is too much. I'm heartbroken.
EDNA RODRIGUEZ My kids are devastated. They were crying.
EDNA RODRIGUEZ It was wonderful. It was cold and wet, but it didn't stop anyone. We're definitely doing it again ne...
EDNA PIERCE You have to preserve your history.
EDNA PIERCE Not only are we showing pictures that we have that day, but we want people to bring in their old pic...
EDNA PIERCE She was a great cat, and I will miss her tremendously.
EDNA HENKE She was a gem, so sweet.
EDNA HENKE So far, everything is the same as in the old days. But we don't know that we will have the money for...
EDNA DOYON We've had unbelievable support from the businesses.
EDNA DOYON When they decided to allow women as members, I said, 'I should do the festival'. I'm hoping it will ...
EDNA DOYON The next thing I know, it picked me up, my chair, with me on it, and threw me to the floor. I had a ...
EDNA BEECHRAFT Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
EDNA W. CHASE The fasts are done; the Aves said; The moon has filled her horn And in the solemn night I watc...
EDNA DEAN PROCTER I think of the garden after the rain; And hope to my heart comes singing, "At morn the cherry-...
EDNA DEAN PROCTER Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century...
DAME EDNA EVERAGE Fashion is general. Style is individual.
EDNA WOOLMAN CHASE Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
EDNA WOOLMAN CHASE My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a ...
DAME EDNA EVERAGE I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
DAME EDNA EVERAGE The fasts are done; the Aves said; The moon has filled her horn And in the solemn night I watch Befo...
EDNA DEAN PROCTOR I think of the garden after the rain; And hope to my heart comes singing, At morn the cherry-blooms ...
EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.
MATTHEW STEWART In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.
JACKIE STEWART I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear...
JACKIE STEWART When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the tox...
JACKIE STEWART We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in tha...
JACKIE STEWART From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.
JACKIE STEWART I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same numbe...
JACKIE STEWART The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyre...
JACKIE STEWART Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax.
JACKIE STEWART There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, b...
JACKIE STEWART We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lyi...
JACKIE STEWART There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the w...
JACKIE STEWART It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who...
JACKIE STEWART Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of owner...
STEWART UDALL More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch wit...
JON STEWART President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much o...
JON STEWART I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that ...
JON STEWART If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.
JON STEWART Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.
JON STEWART If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.
JON STEWART I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. Y...
JON STEWART I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.
JON STEWART Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.
JON STEWART McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
JON STEWART Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you kn...
JON STEWART The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart b...
JON STEWART Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
JON STEWART Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.
JON STEWART The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.
JON STEWART We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been loo...
JON STEWART I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.
JON STEWART You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to lo...
JON STEWART If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they...
JON STEWART I think, with suits and clothes, if you keep them long enough, they all come back in fashion.
ROD STEWART As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance int...
PATRICK STEWART William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good fri...
PATRICK STEWART We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedul...
PATRICK STEWART Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of ...
PATRICK STEWART I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
PATRICK STEWART I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, p...
PATRICK STEWART As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was app...
PATRICK STEWART It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek...
PATRICK STEWART I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afrai...
PATRICK STEWART I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond...
PATRICK STEWART I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campa...
PATRICK STEWART During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on th...
PATRICK STEWART Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons...
PATRICK STEWART Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad mom...
PATRICK STEWART I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because ...
PATRICK STEWART The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be ...
PATRICK STEWART I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've ...
PATRICK STEWART I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly ...
PATRICK STEWART I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
PATRICK STEWART The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-mu...
PATRICK STEWART It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or el...
PATRICK STEWART One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, ...
PATRICK STEWART My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.
ROD STEWART Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost ou...
PATRICK STEWART If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and pol...
STEWART UDALL I don't think people expect Bruce Springsteen to come out in a pink satin jacket, but Rod Stewar...
ROD STEWART This is what you call a tie. We have one yes, one no.
AINSLEY STEWART He put us in a bad spot.
AINSLEY STEWART It's a routine thing they do to break you. It chills free speech. Your hands are tied now.
AINSLEY STEWART I would not advocate going back on strike.
AINSLEY STEWART Members beat him up from all sides, left, right and center. I've never seen anything like it. By the...
AINSLEY STEWART I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might...
PAYNE STEWART For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very ...
STEWART BUTTERFIELD I was born in a little town called Lund in British Columbia. It's like a fishing village. My par...
STEWART BUTTERFIELD Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm sc...
STEWART BRAND I am not a rock star or a movie star; I'm a businessperson. I definitely know who my friends are...
MARTHA STEWART We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that r...
TONY STEWART Everyone seems to have this awareness of Charlie Chaplin because he was a really good businessman wh...
FRENCH STEWART You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.
ROD STEWART We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them t...
MATTHEW STEWART This is the most important case I have ever tried.
AL STEWART You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
AL STEWART Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
AL STEWART Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
AL STEWART She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.
AL STEWART She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your ...
AL STEWART Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.
AL STEWART We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down...
AL STEWART Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
AL STEWART I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on se...
KRISTEN STEWART Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.
STEWART UDALL The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
MARY STEWART I wish I knew what I know now before.
ROD STEWART When fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
STEWART BRAND We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
STEWART UDALL The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
MARY STEWART I think what I do is borderline art. Most people who do borderline art have to have other jobs, so I...
STEWART LEE It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what...
JON STEWART I was never a good-looking bloke. Not by a long chalk.
ROD STEWART Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.
MARTHA STEWART Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians ca...
JON STEWART The internet is just a world passing notes around a classroom.
JON STEWART There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't...
IAN STEWART Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.
JIMMY STEWART If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, b...
JON STEWART I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in abo...
JON STEWART You can tempt me, desert me, or cause me great pain; you can create a dark world that my cause me to...
CHRIS STEWART There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to...
MARY STEWART It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
MARY STEWART Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road...
STEWART BRAND When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
STEWART BRAND If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.
JIMMY STEWART