Au Prince Quotes

#1. When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to know the country of our ancestors. Because Haiti is an island, the beach is everywhere. Haitians are particular, even snobby, about beaches.

Roxane Gay

#2. It's a marriage of convenience. Temporarily, so long as our interests coincide, however long it takes to dispose of that mob of petit blancs at Port-au-Prince. Afterward,' he waved his sticky fingers airily, 'everything will return to the way it was before.

Madison Smartt Bell

#3. It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere ... That's the world! On which hope sits!

Barack Obama

#4. The majority of people mistakenly feel like they don't need a live musical experience.

Reggie Workman

#5. I always look forward to seeing a man who has more brains than me.

Salma Hayek

#6. Our whole philosophy was to intimidate the quarterback. We were able to do it. We were pioneers. People still recognize us as, maybe, the best defensive line of all time.

Merlin Olsen

#7. Simon closed his eyes again. He nodded slowly. "So we're slaves to love. And who we're given to love, that's a lottery too. Is that what you're saying?" "It's brutal, but that's how it is," Sissel declared. "And the gods laugh," Simon said.

Jo Nesbo

#8. It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.

Chapman Cohen

#9. Because if you want my love, you'll get it completely. The full, uncensored, crude, fucking X-rated version of it. When I love someone I do it with all my being, not just my heart. When you're with me your soul, your body, and your mind are all mine. I don't do just one thing. I do it all. Hard

Clarissa Wild

#10. I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

Sting

#11. I am a hundred and forty six years old and this is not my first unwinnable war.

Cassandra Clare

#12. Not that I'm the kind of person who would actually inflict emotional pain on another human being out of a selfish, twisted need for revenge.
I just like to think about it.

Jennifer Gilby Roberts

#13. Good general theory does not search for the maximum generality, but for the right generality.

Saunders Mac Lane

#14. I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

Garry Trudeau

#15. Go to any hospital, you'll find wards that are run by senior nurses with matrons. The point is do they have the power, do they have the responsibility inside the hospital?

Andrew Lansley

#16. Appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

Laurel Lea

#17. This is Karma. I'm a bitch. Can you think of anyone who deserves a bitch slap? - Kat

Jenny Han