Achenar Quotes

#1. Betelgeuse, Achenar. Orion. Aquila. Centre the Cross and you have a steady compass. But there's no compass for my ever disoriented soul, only ever beckoning ghost lights. In the one sure direction, to the one sure end.

Keri Hulme

#2. About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.

Nadine Gordimer

#3. Over the years, I managed to develop this comedy career, went from opening act to headliner at comedy clubs, to playing concert halls, and had an off-Broadway show with 'Sleepwalk With Me.'

Mike Birbiglia

#4. I will say that I do gravitate more towards quirkier guys. I always date guys who wear glasses.

Jillian Rose Reed

#5. I was changing into my shirt (and matching boxers! Wasn't I lucky?) in the tourist shop bathroom when a voice said, "You look retarded." I looked up at the mirror. My reflection looked ridiculous. "Yeah. Well. You don't look so hot yourself," I said back.

Michelle Hodkin

#6. They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

Iris Chang

#7. As I try never to argue with death omens.
Tybalt

Seanan McGuire

#8. Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

Orson Welles

#9. Only good people think they're bad. People who are truly rotten to the core think the problem is everyone else.

Charity Parkerson

#10. The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Duke Ellington

#11. I'm really glad I came in The Beaver last night.

Melanie Harlow

#12. The stark evening sun at the far edge of the town had just unzipped the sky and finally gone down.

Jack Bunbury

#13. Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to go double.

Gregory Benford