Blinkoe's Quotes

#1. The Jenny Haniver was repaired. He put his hand flat on the chart table and let the steady throb of Anchorage's engines beat against his palm, and it felt like home. In a cheap hotel behind Wolverinehampton's air-quay Widgery Blinkoe's five wives turned five

Philip Reeve

#2. I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.

George A. Romero

#3. You have the ability to shine and make a mark in some field. Your job is to find your niche, excel and build a lasting legacy.

Roopleen

#4. Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

Samuel Johnson

#5. In fact, Bill Clinton's an excellent example of what he should be doing when he realizes that he's not invulnerable. He realized two things: his invulnerability was contextualized in two things: junk food, and he had a problem with certain kinds of women.

Walter Mischel

#6. What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

Morton Feldman

#7. But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?

Dar Williams

#8. The simple task of getting dressed and undressed was a real strain, but nothing could compare with her addiction to deep sleep ...

Ingeborg Bachmann

#9. You cannot expect a man to love you, but not because of your body or physical construction. It is like giving a man the option between choosing you and a monkey.

M.F. Moonzajer

#10. I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road.

Theophilus London

#11. The sums acquired by the administrators of this domaine extraordinaire in the period of France's zenith were quite remarkable and in some ways foreshadow Nazi Germany's plunder of its satellites and conquered foes during the Second World War.

Paul Kennedy

#12. Being a person that others can trust is one of the most sought after qualities in the workplace today. So many leaders and their staff have shown in the recent global financial crisis a lack of trust and integrity amongst themselves and with their clients and other stakeholders.

Nigel Cumberland

#13. All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

Steven Saylor

#14. I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

Mariska Hargitay

#15. As medical progress has extended our lives, the result has been what's called the "rectangularization" of survival.

Atul Gawande