Blackthorn Kenilworth Quotes

#1. What we need to make a more decent society is not a few Splendid Samaritans but millions of Minimally Decent Samaritans.

J. David Smith

#2. So this is how my friend died. Because I taught him how to read the gospels. And because he had the bravery to speak out about what they revealed.

Ian Caldwell

#3. I don't even drink coffee.

Hunter Parrish

#4. Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.

Margaret Chittenden

#5. Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.

Henry Rollins

#6. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. There was Tyson moving into the Poseidon cabin, giggling to himself every fifteen seconds and saying, "Percy is my brother?" like he'd just won the lottery.
Aw, Tyson," I'd say. "It's not that simple.

Rick Riordan

#8. Yes. Can you print these pictures and make sure the others have copies? Particularly Barry. He's Locator in Chief on this one." "I'll do it right now. I'm packing a Fujitsu ScanSnap. Great little on-the-go machine.

Stephen King

#9. I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

Donna Leon

#10. The curse and blessing of the human race was its chumminess.

Stephen King

#11. It's like high school holds two different worlds, revolving around each other and never touching; the haves and the have-nots. I guess it's a good thing. High school is supposed to prepare you for the real world, after all.

Lauren Oliver

#12. Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.

Alan Moore

#13. I wished that teachers were the highest paid people in Israel.

Arnon Milchan

#14. Look at the Germans, the most cultured and well mannered of people, and yet ... Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Given the same set of circumstances it could just as well have been the English,

Kate Atkinson

#15. I was a little punk rocker and was pregnant with Sarah when I went to university. I had her in the Christmas holidays of the first term. It was 1979, and UCL was very proud of its reputation as a liberal university, so they were very helpful.

Alison Owen