Annia Quotes

#1. I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in my head when I'm about midway through the previous novel.

Julia Glass

#2. It's funny because when Jason [Statham] was drowning I was filming with an iPhone. It may have been a bit insensitive but I just thought, "you know what, this was a magic moment". And I couldn't help him anyway because I didn't want to drown.

Sylvester Stallone

#3. The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle East but for places from Africa to Afghanistan. There are millions of stories out there, millions of potential Booksellers of Kabul or Valentino Achak Dengs.

Annia Ciezadlo

#4. Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.

Donna J. Haraway

#5. As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.

Annia Ciezadlo

#6. But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different category. People would open up, and tell me things that they would never tell another journalist, no matter how persistent.

Annia Ciezadlo

#7. You never do anything without a reason." "Of course not. Why do anything without a reason?" "Don't start up with your circular logic.

Richelle Mead

#8. Oh, Hell's gates!" Annia cried, borrowing Vix's favorite curse.

Kate Quinn

#9. Part of the reason you see so little about this in the Western media is that Iraq was closed off from the outside world for so long under Saddam. But I think there's a deeper reason, which is that it messes with our assumptions - not just about Iraq, but about culture and human nature.

Annia Ciezadlo

#10. I think what you wear on Halloween is important. It says something about you
who you are and what you want to be. There's got to be a reason so many girls go around dressed as princesses and witches.

Jennifer L. Holm

#11. I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.

Stephen Chbosky

#12. I am kind of majoring in bull shitting.

Kate Voegele

#13. I don't have a problem with the media focusing on bad things happening. That's our job, after all. But I think it's incomplete, and I would even say it's inaccurate, to only portray a place through its tragedies.

Annia Ciezadlo

#14. We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend most of our lives doing everyday things: at the dinner table, in the kitchen, washing dishes, grocery-shopping, commuting. These things make up the fabric of our lives.

Annia Ciezadlo

#15. But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#16. Which is one of the dangers of immersion journalism: you can find yourself getting sucked into battles you have nothing to do with, in this case an ongoing battle between Muslims.

Annia Ciezadlo

#17. Even when she was just a flutter inside me, I loved her. Because she is ours.

Kate Quinn

#18. But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.

Annia Ciezadlo

#19. No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. America wasn't founded as a theocracy. America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a Christian theocracy where it wasn't bloody and barbaric. That's why our Constitution wisely put in a separation of church and state.

Gregory A. Boyd

#21. Annia of the red braid and the ferocious scowl and the long, long limbs. Annia Galeria Faustina ...
"Mine," I whispered, "Mine

Kate Quinn

#22. There's no disputing that for pols, the Internet is a great way to connect with people and raise some cash and post 'Sopranos' parodies or play your opponent's macaca moments. But in a 'net root' sense, it's pretty useless for getting someone elected.

John Ridley

#23. Have you ever wondered whether there could be a different, more positive script in which the one who feels well survives?

Vadim Zeland

#24. There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write about war and politics and public life, while women confine themselves to family and food and personal life.

Annia Ciezadlo

#25. Luckily, just at the world's outer limit, right where a wandering soul needs it most, is a bar where he can get a beer.

Annia Ciezadlo

#26. I thought, Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact!

Alan Moore

#27. Compass rules direction; Decision rules life!

Israelmore Ayivor

#28. The Middle East is the only region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where rates of malnutrition actually rose over the past decade or two, instead of falling.

Annia Ciezadlo

#29. I bet you anything that 10 times out of 10, Nicky, Vinny and Tony will beat the shit out of Todd, Kyle and Tucker.

George Carlin

#30. There hasn't been a lot written about it in the Western media. But in the Arab world, and Western Asia as a whole, Baghdad was always known as a famously bookish, intellectual city. There's an old saying that Cairo writes, Beirut publishes, and Baghdad reads.

Annia Ciezadlo