Chika Takami Quotes

#1. The air smelled of gunpowder when Daniel emerged from the Angel tube stop and headed for Islington Police Station. It was midsummer and airless, the moon slipping unseen into a bright, troubled sky. The day was gravid, ready to burst. As

Lisa Ballantyne

#2. Cairo is an exploding modern metropolis which nevertheless preserves within its heart the finest medieval city in the world...

Michael Haag

#3. Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

Wendelin Van Draanen

#4. I believe there is a right way to fail and a wrong way to fail.

Ian Anthony Dale

#5. If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

Plutarch

#6. I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

Muqtada Al Sadr

#7. And Granny Weatherwax said, "I was younger when I last danced with you. But I am old now. There will be no more dances for me.

Terry Pratchett

#8. I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.

John Engler

#9. My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary.

George Rogers Clark

#10. Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved

Mason Cooley

#11. One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what to do. Declare war! Then nothing else matters. It's like chess; when in doubt, castle.

Kurt Vonnegut