Aydelott Quotes

#1. We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there is a not-knowingness, I think, that leads us back to suffering humanity with a more compassionate vision than most of our politicians have.

Sam Hamill

#2. Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support.

Gloria Steinem

#3. I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.

Jeanette Winterson

#4. Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.

Maria Edgeworth

#5. It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

Mohsin Hamid

#6. Quil. . .imprinted. . .with a two year old?

Stephenie Meyer

#7. Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.

Susan Orlean

#8. Your choices define your actions; your actions define your life.

Debasish Mridha

#9. You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Frank Miller

#10. The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.

Edward Ball

#11. In the end, forever, you and I will be in Heaven or Hell. Period.

John Corapi

#12. But there was another, secret Ruby. This one was as thin as a wisp of air, and had struggled for so long just to be. This was the one that Liam carried with him, without knowing. The one that would ride in his back pocket, whisper words of encouragement, tell him he was born to chase the light.

Alexandra Bracken

#13. I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

Tony Benn

#14. Good books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.

Joe Queenan