Enforced Band Quotes

#1. She is holding on tight to this talk of flowers, as I did before, when I was afraid and alone. If you sing and speak of blooms and petals that come back after a long time of being winter-still, you don't have to think about things that don't.

Ally Condie

#2. I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone.

Nina Easton

#3. The best words for resolving a disagreement are, "I could be wrong; I often am." It's true.

Brian Tracy

#4. If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent discrepancy. If there's one thing we authors are good at, it's hand-waving.

Timothy Zahn

#5. Do you think my Cyn would like a souvenir?" he asked Duncan.
Duncan leaned sideways to study the dripping organ.
"probably not, My lord.

D.B. Reynolds

#6. My hole is warm and full of light.

Ralph Ellison

#7. No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.

Charles Caleb Colton

#8. When you're very young and you're different, you begin to believe that no one has ever been as different as you and that no one has ever felt that difference as keenly as you.

B.R. Sanders

#9. Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

H.L. Mencken

#10. All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.

Ann Wilson

#11. Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.

Eve Ensler

#12. Just to gloat at mum and dad's golden girl brought low. But

David Nicholls

#13. I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set.

Shiloh Fernandez

#14. There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.

Andrew Sullivan