Blind Assassin Quotes

#1. You don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much. (The Blind Assassin, 137).

Margaret Atwood

#2. I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.

Kiefer Sutherland

#3. Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.

Margaret Atwood

#4. One look at a banana and you can tell it came from outer space.

Margaret Atwood

#5. How I would like to have them back, those pointless afternoons - the boredom, the aimlessness, the unformed possibilities.

Margaret Atwood

#6. Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

Alexander Pope

#7. Don't sneak up on a woman holding a hammer.

Carolyn Brown

#8. Doesn't it honor Him more when His children no longer see themselves only as sinners saved by grace, but now as heirs of God? Isn't it a greater form of humility to believe Him when He says we are precious in His sight when we don't feel very precious?

Bill Johnson

#9. He that will be served must bee patient.

George Herbert

#10. Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think for me the change from fiction to poetry was that in fiction I was writing about something, in poetry I was writing something.

Vito Acconci

#11. Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.

Margaret Atwood

#12. And because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.

Jane Austen

#13. In case you're wondering, vanity never ends.

Margaret Atwood

#14. I didn't know I was about to be left with her idea of me; with her idea of my goodness pinned onto me like a badge and no chance to throw it back at her (as would have been the normal course of affairs with a mother and a daughter - if she'd lived, as I'd grown older).

Margaret Atwood

#15. I have a piano in my kitchen. I read a great biography about Tom Waits that said that he had a piano in his kitchen; he had a grand piano in his kitchen. And I thought, 'Well, if Tom Waits has one, then I must.'

Jamie Cullum

#16. I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

Oriana Fallaci

#17. For a moment, she wasn't Mia Corvere, daughter of a murdered house, parched with the thirst for revenge. Not a fledgling assassin or a servant of a goddess. Just a girl. And he a boy. Their eyes blind to all but each other. Aalea's voice echoing in her ears.

Jay Kristoff

#18. A poem doesn't come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making you guess what it means.

Franny Billingsley

#19. The ancestral voices were prophesying war because ancestral voices never shut up, and they hate to be wrong, and war is a sure thing, sooner or later.

Margaret Atwood