Fortissimus 2009 Quotes

#1. Reflect, reflect.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. I was painfully shy as a child.

Lesley Nicol

#3. As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

Corrie Ten Boom

#4. There are no endings for any of us, happy or
otherwise, until we die. A fairy tale only ends
happily because that's the point where the
storyteller stops telling the story.

Lilly Gayle

#5. Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.

Gautama Buddha

#6. Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.

Al Pacino

#7. The terminator - not the robotic assassin of moviedom, but the line between night and day through which our planet incessantly rotates.

Neal Stephenson

#8. My name is Lithuanian. My father was born there, and he gave me a cool name. It's the Lithuanian national flower - looks like a weed, a little bit like me! - although in Spanish it means a 'route' or 'road,' and in Swedish it means 'square'. So, not quite so cool in those countries.

Ruta Gedmintas

#9. What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

Edith Wharton

#10. I'm looking for things that are really connected - education, both in the developing world and at home. The way that that affects communities and, in particular, women.

Sophia Bush

#11. Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.

Charles Reade

#12. I have two things going for me. The first is the fidelity to my principles, and the other is my ability to show up for the fight every day. Period that.

Ron Dellums

#13. There was nothing better than the feel of a book in your hand, listening to the crinkling sounds as you turned its pages and the smell of its crisp paper.

Astrid Yrigollen