#haven

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#done #haven #hole #just #make

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#best part #films #haven #i #part

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like. ↗

— Will Smith

#earned #haven #impress #like #many

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#haven #i #life #lived #old

A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#blow #desire #establish #free #haven

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#broad #broader #connect #design #diverse

I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

#day #discipline #emotion #every #every day

It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared... ↗

— Brandon Mull

#fablehaven #funny #mull #reading #seth

FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#humor #magic #trespassing #humor

Six hundred years is an awfully long time, Ever. So long it's impossible for either of us to imagine. Though it is more than enough time to rack up a few dirty skeletons for the old metaphorical closet, right? ↗

— Alyson Noel

#imagination