Ateles Quotes

#1. An American monkey, an Ateles, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus was wiser than many men.

Michael Kuhar

#2. If a woman has talent she'll get there. But she has to be willing to fight ... to have tremendous determination and be single-minded about it.

Patricia Lovell

#3. I really admire people who have long-distance relationships. It's an incredible achievement. I couldn't do it.

Rita Ora

#4. Whatever things a man gives up,By those he cannot suffer pain.

Thiruvalluvar

#5. (The) Gray wagtail ... doesn't look like much, does he? Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.

Anthony Doerr

#6. All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

Meghan O'Rourke

#7. When you think of two things to say, pick your favorite and only say that, my mother suggested once, as a tip to polite social behavior, and the rule was later modified to one in three.

Karen Joy Fowler

#8. Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

Martin Freeman

#9. I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.

Greg Egan

#10. I go to Ireland. Walk along an empty beach. When I do, I think of all the people who have walked there before, and will walk there again. Then it occurs to me nothing is forever. No matter how bad or how good, everything passes and moves on to another level.

Nora Roberts

#11. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#12. He killed more men than the cholera.

Ernest Hemingway,

#13. There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#14. Oh, Clikk, thank the stars!' she exclaimed, leaping into my arms. 'The pirate man said to trust him and so I gave him my dress and went with the other pirate in his ship!'
'Oh, good,' I said. 'But next time a pirate tells you to trust him, you mustn't. Understood?

Meg Merriet

#15. In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast.

James Wolk