#message

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#ayn rand #because #compassion #economical #fiction

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#avoid #different #different things #doing #had

We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down? ↗

— Sarah Sutton

#always #around #calm #calm down #director

I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#always #be true #becoming #control #culture

They would hear 3000 and think it was the year 3000, I was hoping it would sort of disorient them and prepare them for the strange message they were about to receive. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

#hear #hoping #i #message #prepare

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#another way #created #cultural #examine #experience

The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters. ↗

— Rachel Blanchard

#brothers #child #confusing #does #fork

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ↗

— Eleanora Duse

#blue #fills #joy #lest things #message

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#always #effects #gets #just #measure

My message has always been about resilience. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#always #been #message #resilience