#thor

I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#decided #few #her #i #list

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#came #enjoy #i #i came #intimidating

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#asking #authority #budget #director #effective

There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects. ↗

— Ian Botham

#done #ensure #feel #get #here

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody. ↗

— David Bowie

#am #amount #backing #everybody #extraordinary

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world. ↗

— Mo Yan

#authors #china #great #i #i think

We will defend ourselves, and we have full rights to do so. If the authorities try to destroy us, we have the right to rise up. Sooner or later this will happen. ↗

— Sergei Udaltsov

#defend #destroy #full #happen #later

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#go #had #juliet #macbeth #never

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#believe #disrespect #forms #i #i believe

The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#authority #calls #eavesdrop #his #international