Emerence Quotes

#1. The roast meat the animal had snatched was only a semblance. It was more than food, it was a meal not for human witness, a tangle of viscera, a species of human sacrifice - as if Emerence were feeding the actual person to the dog, along with all her fond memories and feelings.

Magda Szabo

#2. Emerence was spontaneously good, unthinkingly generous, able to reveal her orphaned condition only to another orphan, but never giving voice to her utter loneliness.

Magda Szabo

#3. Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.

Joe Gibbs

#4. I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.

Adam Green

#5. Focus on progress, not perfection.

Josh Bezoni

#6. A gentle word, a smile, an act of compassion, these are the things that can turn hate to love,

K.M. Shea

#7. Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#8. Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Federico Fellini

#9. If I could be anything but what I am, I would be tomorrow. If I could be what my father wants me to be, then maybe I could stay for that, too. If I could be what you want me to be, I'd want to stay. But I am what I am, and all I want is freedom.

Melina Marchetta

#10. I fink I gots deaf on me willie.

Christopher Moore

#11. The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.

Daryl Gregory

#12. Simpson's Paradox: when a whole body of data displays one trend, yet when broken into subgroups, the opposite trend comes into view for each of those subgroups.

Cathy O'Neil