#yann

On the way home I absently minded (you know what I mean) went through a stop sign in Hyannis so of course there was a police car to apprehend me. A soft answer turnethed away wrath, fortunately. ↗

— Edward Gorey

#kindness #speeding #home

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. ↗

— Yann Martel

#martel #of #pi #yann #life

Intelligence is not how much you know, but how you use it. ↗

— Maryann Austin

#maryann-austin #intelligence

She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#lyanna-stark #nature #love

If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#along #better #certainly #directives #earth

Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#city #get #got #grateful #greatest

I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type. ↗

— Dan Savage

#i #i am #idiot #pollyanna #sort

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life-of-pi #reason #yann-martel #faith

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#genetic #hopeless #i #mother #pollyanna

I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#anyway #boat #compete #crime #find