Fortin Amplification Quotes

#1. The word troubled her, though. 'Indispensable.' It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air.

Michel Faber

#2. As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.

Adrienne Rich

#3. To paraphrase Titus 3:3, we live as slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in chaos and envy, hassled by others and hassling one another. We are all very busy, but not with what matters

Kevin DeYoung

#4. Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.

Billy Sherwood

#5. Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

Bono

#6. Uncivil, incompetent in fulfilling basic constitutional responsibilities (such as timely appropriations), micromanagerial, parochial, hypocritical, egotistical, thin-skinned, often putting self (and reelection) before country - this was my view of the majority of the United States Congress.

Robert M. Gates

#7. Catching a glimpse of her reflection in the mirror, she briefly wished once again that she was taller, sexier and bigger in the chest. Sighing, she reconciled herself with the knowledge that if she were, the world would never be able to live with her.

Pamela Murdaugh-Smith

#8. 'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum.

Cathleen Schine

#9. The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.

Edward Abbey

#10. I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

Ann Richards