Barthelme Prize Quotes

#1. I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#2. The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is.

George Osborne

#3. Heavenly Father, thank You for Your peace that rules my heart. I choose Your peace today and thank You for guiding my every step. I choose to be thankful today and bless You for Your faithfulness. In Jesus Name. Amen.

Joel Osteen

#4. I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

Henning Mankell

#5. Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.

Paul Kagame

#6. I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

Mary Karr

#7. I was off to Yale to be a lesbian

Judith Butler

#8. I need some challenges in love or I'm bored.

Simon Baker

#9. I don't know why so many artists talk about the mainstream's problems from the fringe. I think, unfortunately, it's almost like our education makes us too safe and terrified to step into the world.

Mark Bradford

#10. Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. full of mercy toward everyone who calls out to you. Psalm 86:5

Dianne Neal Matthews

#12. No one can define you except your actions.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Rice in Taiwan, unlike America, doesn't always come out soggy and limp.

Eddie Huang

#14. One of the most useful tasks of apology is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly, and painfully past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong and disgraceful. It behooves us to consider if future geenrations will similarly regard the aims we most defend today.

John Kador