Aslanidis Quotes

#1. As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

Michael Cunningham

#2. In my bedroom, I squeezed shut my eyes, because it was too hard, that memory. Too hard, too painful, too much like losing a slice of myself, which, in fact, I had.

Lauren Myracle

#3. Go round cringing like a dog, Matt," he said, "and folks will treat you like one. Stand up like a man, and they'll treat you like a man." That was fine for Weaver, but I wondered sometimes, How exactly do you stand up like a man when you're a girl?

Jennifer Donnelly

#4. We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.

V.S. Naipaul

#5. Even without the mushroom cloud
still I would have hated
Listen
I would have done the same things
even if there were no death
I will not be held like a drunkard
under the cold tap of facts
I refuse the universal alibi

Leonard Cohen

#6. For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

Bell Hooks

#7. At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Ovid

#8. I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.

Ed Oxenbould

#9. I have a terrible memory.

Dorothy Allison

#10. The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives ...

Walker Percy

#11. If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.

Christopher Hitchens