Diana Gabaldon Quotes

Orkney has the kind of landscape that sort of lends itself to a relationship with the people. I think that relationship is intensified because of its remoteness and the long periods of time when there was no interaction with other cultures.

Diana Gabaldon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 11, 1952

Topics

RelationshipTimePeopleThinkLong

Thank you, hard taco shells, for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you.

Jimmy Fallon

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One exercise I always do when I'm getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, 'I never told anybody...' and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.

Jennifer McMahon

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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Robert Southey

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I've been lucky. I've been at a place that's a meritocracy. It doesn't really matter that much what your gender is if you do the work well.

Mildred Dresselhaus

WorkGenderYouPlaceMatterLucky

I'm so drastically independent; I don't tend to flourish in relationships.

Julia Butterfly Hill

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Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth.

Diane Lane

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The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.

Christie Hefner

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Building capacities for the young generation is going to make a better generation and a better future tomorrow for Africa.

Corneille Ewango

FutureTomorrowBuildingBetterMake

I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocracy who are not aristocratic - they're lower-middle class or working class. An awful lot of your so-called angry young actors have grown up in extreme bourgeois comfort. It really is surprisingly common.

Colin Firth

AngryPeopleThinkYouComfortUp

Letting the greens dictate your energy choices, whether it's halting the XL Pipeline or fracking in New York, isn't just bad economics. It can also leave your rivals and enemies controlling your energy destiny.

Arthur L. Herman

New YorkEconomicsChoicesEnergy

I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.

Alison Weir

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I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.

Rick Springfield

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