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Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it..."
You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind. America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who -- with their hands, their intelligence and their heart -- built the greatest nation in the world: ‘Come, and everything will be given to you.’ She said: ‘Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent. Nicolas Sarkozy
Scully,' [Mulder] said, his voice quiet and serious, 'with the... unorthodox explanations I often find when studying the evidence, I know you're always skeptical-but every time you're at least fair to me. You respect my opinion, even when you don't agree with it.' He looked at his hands. 'I don't know if I've ever told you, but I really appreciate that.'She looked at him and smiled. 'You've told me, Mulder. Maybe not in words... but you've told me. Kevin J. Anderson
Such a number of nights,' said the girl, with a touch of woman's tenderness, which communicated something like sweetness of tone, even to her voice; 'such a number of nights as I've been patient with you, nursing and caring for you, as if you had been a child: and this the first that I've seen you like yourself; you wouldn't have served me as you did just now, if you'd thought of that, would you? Come, come; say you wouldn't. Charles Dickens
Terry Prachett quote: "Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to..."
Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war. Terry Prachett
Roald Dahl quote: "I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished..."
I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books. Roald Dahl
When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that. Margaret Atwood
Christopher Hitchens quote: "[He]said something that made it impossible to continue working..."
[He]said something that made it impossible to continue working for him.[The exact words were]You're fired. Christopher Hitchens
Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they werenight-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven. But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehow. I put it all together and figured that the food God served causedmultiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Jodi Picoult
William Goldman quote: "I don't like killing a girl," the Spaniard said."God does it..."
I don't like killing a girl," the Spaniard said."God does it all the time; if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you. William Goldman
My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch. Jhumpa Lahiri
They blew up your homes and demolished the grocery / stores and blocked the Red Cross and took away doctors / to jail and they cluster-bombed girls and boys / whose bodies / swelled purple and black into twice the original size / and tore the buttocks from a four month old baby / and then / they said this was brilliant June Jordan
Elie Wiesel quote: "War is like night, she said. It covers everything."
War is like night, she said. It covers everything. Elie Wiesel
Anne Rice quote: "I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't..."
I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love. Anne Rice
Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius."The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up. But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word Brenda Ueland

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