Caslavska Quotes

#1. I think one of the things the writers' festival does that is very good is that it brings writers from around the world and around the country and locally and puts them all in the one spot together, and that's what a lot of the world's great writers' festivals do.

Nick Earls

#2. For his part, the stranger was drifting in Annabel's direction, yet not very deliberately. As if, in some way, he were being drawn to her, by some (unconscious) motion or motive of Annabel herself. Why

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Francis Bacon

#4. Where there is not the slightest of misery; that is where the Soul is.

Dada Bhagwan

#5. I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.

Bear Grylls

#6. Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.

Vera Caslavska

#7. If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It's simple, but it's true, and your age is just an excuse.

Herschel Walker

#8. I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

Sandra Cisneros