Crosscup 2020 2021 Quotes

#1. Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.

Lawrence Fagg

#2. The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.

Edmund White

#3. As a student in Beijing in 1996, I sometimes marveled at the sheer obscurity of the movies that somehow made it onto pirated discs in China.

Evan Osnos

#4. I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.

Sakip Sabanci

#5. Praying about everything in our lives and keeping quiet can keep us out of a lot of trouble.

Amanda Penland

#6. Adams looks forward to teaching his granddaughters about planting trees, noting that they already show inclination toward this and need only be encouraged in the naturalist pursuits he has found so healthy.

Paul C. Nagel

#7. We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

John Dryden

#8. Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible in their consciousness of being right.

Alexander Berkman

#9. Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

Virgil

#10. What are you going to have?" he asked.
"A nervous breakdown," she muttered and opened her menu.
So we'll tell the waitress to make that a double, he thought.

Jessica Bird

#11. There were so many other things that he could add, that he doubted whether life without her offered him any pleasure at all, that he had hoped to recreate the happiness that had existed between his own parents in his union with her.

Janet Aylmer

#12. That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

Ricky Jay

#13. I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?

Liam Neeson