Terry McMillan Quotes

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

Terry McMillan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 18, 1951

Topics

TreatRelationshipsWhyMoreWrite

It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.

Max Lucado

AngerMeElectionCynicismSeems

Religion was very influential because when it got really bad, and you don't know who to turn to, but I turned to God and was praying and meditating, that really helped.

Amir Khan

GodReligionYouBadKnowTurn

I'm not really a professional composer; I just compose now and then when someone asks me to.

Stephen Hough

MeSomeoneProfessionalNowJust

The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?

Dennis C. Blair

InspirationalChangeGreatPastKing

Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire won't be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked to take naps.

Scott Adams

DreamsYour DreamsPeopleAdviceTwo

I went to a fundamentalist Christian high school and went to a fundamentalist church, and they were the greatest people; there was an amazing sense of community. The problem is when the messiness of real life enters, and the inflexibility of a moral code cannot cope with the realities of moral relativism.

Scott Derrickson

LifeCommunitySchoolPeopleAmazing

I think I had a fur coat that someone bought me from Portobello Market back in the 1960s, but I think as soon as you think about it, what it is you're wearing, make that connection, then you realise it's just not right. I don't lecture people about it, but it's not something I'd ever wear.

Twiggy

PeopleMeThinkSomeoneYouBack

I have made every other person who has helped me my godfather.

Nushrat Bharucha

MePersonWhoMadeGodfatherEvery

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu

MenDeathBirthShouldWeep

The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

Len Wein

CharacterHumanitySameAlwaysLine

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

Henry Louis Gates

SufferingYouDoesNecessarily

The structures in Europe in a globalising economy need to be modernised, need to be more integrated, need to be stronger.

George Papandreou

StrongerMoreNeedEconomyEurope

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