Anowa Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes

#1. Every time I mention her, Magnus says, "Are you two getting along?" in raised, hopeful tones, like we're endangered pandas who need to make a baby.

Sophie Kinsella

#2. I have always said the French team is the most important thing that has happened to me. I thought deeply about it and I want to play for France again.

Zinedine Zidane

#3. Maybe in death you'll understand that love, and all other needs take a backseat when the one thing you want, stands against all that you swear to protect.

Charles Lee

#4. This isn't a game. We don't want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you've spent most of your time here being mediocre.

Richelle Mead

#5. Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

Edie Falco

#6. Or maybe just an amphetamine freak? Clark's thoughts wandered to a particularly exciting week in Toronto, eighteen or nineteen years old, when he and Arthur had accepted some pills from a new friend at a dance club and stayed up for seventy-two hours straight.

Emily St. John Mandel

#7. I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#8. It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.

Kristin Cashore

#9. At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.

Peter Singer

#10. Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.

Vera Farmiga

#11. The Republican abuse of the term feminism in the past decade or so is an astonishing lesson in the politically opportunistic use of language.

Nina Power

#12. Well, I don't have an agenda.

Ron Perlman

#13. When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as a portrait painter I wouldn't be able to support a goldfish.

Fred Gwynne

#14. The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.

Marilyn Monroe

#15. Long, discursive, dry, and inane are the prayers in many pulpits. Without unction or heart, they fall like a killing frost on all the graces of worship. Death-dealing prayers they are. Every vestige of devotion has perished under their breath. The deader they are the longer they grow.

E. M. Bounds