Fidel V Ramos Quotes

#1. A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson's biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics and its relation with the American hegemon. It's first-rate scholarship and equally first-rate writing.

F. Sionil Jose

#2. Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality

Albert Hadley

#3. And if he bathes her in sections, will the parts hold?

Toni Morrison

#4. Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#5. I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

Ice Cube

#6. At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the ongoing fighting in Russia, where the Red Army was secretly preparing its vast encirclement of the Germans' Army Group Centre.

Antony Beevor

#7. Where is your maman?
I don't know.
I think we've gone and lost her, Pea. Papa's voice dissolves into the colours behind my eyes.
I'm sorry Papa. I don't know how to find her, I say.

Claire King

#8. Why is it that I occur as a story to everyone except myself?

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.

Thomas Lovejoy

#10. Ghosts, in the end, adopt the motivations and perhaps the very souls of those who behold them. If they are malevolent, their malevolence comes from us.

Stephen King

#11. I want to be playing music, and I want to be a great mom, and I want to do everything.

Emily Robison

#12. I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.

Tim Robbins

#13. Children - even when they have endured the unthinkable - have a gift for divining the moment when the grown-ups really need to lighten up.

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. He lay back down on the snow. "What's the name for the space between stars?" "No such name." "Make one up." I thought about it. "The soul asylum.

Hannah Kent

#15. I was overcome by a wave of wonder at how much good was going on, and how you heard about the bad things that happened so much that you overlooked the immensely disproportionate majority of other acts done to the real benefit of self and others without which none of this would be here at all.

Ken MacLeod

#16. Is there life before death?

Amy Wolf