Ben Okri Starbook Quotes

#1. You had a bet. You couldn't lose a bet. If you had a choice between me and winning, you'll choose winning every time. It's still true.

Jennifer Echols

#2. May I ask your name, my lady? Or perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.

Heath Ledger

#3. Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.

Jessica Zafra

#4. You, know I'm the Queen's favorite great nephew, Well, yeah I'm her only great nephew, but that's not important, I'd still be her favorite ...

Richelle Mead

#5. The Hegemony had known how to treat cancer, but most of the gene-tailoring knowledge and technology had been lost after the Fall.

Dan Simmons

#6. I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.

D.H. Lawrence

#7. If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

George Saunders

#8. Cavities are made by sugar. So if you need to dig a hole, then lay down some candy bars!

Mitch Hedberg

#9. The light in that room was a kind of malpractice.

Adam Haslett

#10. I don't want to be sued and cursed-out later.

Mr. Muthafuckin' EXquire

#11. I think about Old Nick carrying me into the truck, I'm dizzy like I'm going to
fall down.
"Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing."
"Huh?"
"Scaredybrave."
"Scave."
Word sandwiches always make her laugh but I wasn't being funny.

Emma Donoghue

#12. His sense of duty, honor, rectitude. What made me want to scream one day could make me proud the next.

Siri Hustvedt

#13. Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

Finley Peter Dunne