Belluard Festival Quotes

#1. Philippa Somerville, standing back a little, did not withdraw her arm. In her white face, a shadow of motherly irritation appeared. 'Has no one here any sense? Be quiet and sit down. The world will look after itself for a night, without your hand on the rim.

Dorothy Dunnett

#2. Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

Dave Eggers

#3. You call our upbringing normal?"
"Mostly, yes! Don't get all revisionist. I was queer and lonely. You were weird and hungry. It wasn't nature or nurture. We're the ones who cultivated our abnormalities.

Rodney Ross

#4. As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

Virginia Woolf

#5. My Italian granny and my mother made great spaghetti, but it wasn't a kind of southern Italian, Godfather-esque kind of thing - it was a wonderful, big mixing pot of all kinds of people - when you came home from school and your mum wasn't in, there were lots of people you could go to.

Peter Capaldi

#6. You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem.

Paul Wolfowitz

#7. Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries

Albert Pike

#8. Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

Mohsin Hamid

#9. Our fine Governor called me here to ask me to talk to you
said you didn't seem too happy here. He knows we're pals. He wanted me to just
I don't know, make sure you weren't going to cause any trouble or something.

Robert Kirkman

#10. Success is not about how well I've been able to build my own little kingdom but about the degree to which I've done all I've done in the service of a greater

Paul David Tripp

#11. All this will come as a surprise to modern Internet users who may assume that today's social-media environment is unprecedented. But many of the ways in which we share, consume, and manipulate information, even in the Internet era, build upon habits and conventions that date back centuries.

Tom Standage

#12. My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.

Kevin Spacey