#pond

When the Democrats were investigating the U.S. attorneys that were accused of responding to political pressure, that I joined Senator Leahy in efforts to get transparency of all of the documents. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#attorneys #democrats #documents #efforts #get

When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and then you get the feedback. When you do work online, the moment you're finished making it, people start responding to it which is really fun and allows for a kind of community development you just can't have in novels. ↗

— John Green

#basement #book #come #community #development

Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#another way #circus #god #i #i think

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope. ↗

— James Gunn

#change #character #characters #cope #environment

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#creative #creative writing #creative writing programs #foreign #foreign languages

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers. ↗

— Richard Holloway

#after #children #disciplines #each #eagerly

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring. ↗

— Ben Elton

#easy #find #i #inspiring #respond

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel. ↗

— Harold Kushner

#body #carry #feel #feeling #get

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

#believe #cards #crystal #i #need

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment. ↗

— Ashley Judd

#characters #environment #hurt #i #i think