Baitoa Santiago Quotes

#1. It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

Philip Roth

#2. Perhaps because technology so dominates our existence, more and more it seems that the young reader is captivated by fantasy.

Anita Nair

#3. Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. There may be a little bit of finger-pointing - there always is in a situation like this - but I think of Ebola as an act of nature. It's the biological equivalent of a tsunami, and yes, we are having trouble handling it.

Richard Preston

#5. To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

Melvin Maddocks

#6. I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

Alan Moore

#7. The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile, ... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.

Henry David Thoreau