Blankers Quotes

#1. The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience and with the uneasy relationship between what I was doing and what I believed in - or what I saw as an uneasy relationship between those two things.

Melissa Febos

#2. I always thought my parents could fix anything. Now it's my turn. Dear God, how did this happen?

Lois McMaster Bujold

#3. Your first book is the promise you make.

Toni Jenkins

#4. All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that.

Fanny Blankers-Koen

#5. Life's too short to be an asshole, as an employer or as an employee.

Louis C.K.

#6. Oh. Too bad. Well, all's quiet so far. There was a heckuva lot goin' on last night, though. Think it might be one o' them poultry heists."
"Poultry heist? Someone's stealing chickens?" I asked.
Maya nudged me. "He means poltergeists.

Juliet Blackwell

#7. Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

Sparky Anderson

#8. Let me live. Keep me alive. Both sentences so close in English, but very different meaning.

Aleksandr Voinov

#9. Afghanistan is not only the mirror of the Afghans: it is the mirror of the world. 'If you do not like the image in the mirror, do not break the mirror, break your face,' says an old Persian proverb.

Ahmed Rashid

#10. One of these days in the next 10 years, I will play 'Evita.' I don't know when or where, but I love 'Evita', especially with all my Latin and Spanish studies. It's a very demanding role but I'd love to play it.

Aileen Quinn

#11. When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.

Michael Mina