Gagnon Quotes

#1. I got moxie, I'm so damn cocky. Industry tried to block me like cops and paparazzi.

Lauryn Hill

#2. I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've actually had a teenage character in almost every adult novel that I've written.

Michelle Gagnon

#3. Then let your love guide you. Surrender to your love for him.

L.S. Gagnon

#4. It seemed as though he had a fundamental belief that the merit of his argument depended on the strength of his feelings about the matter, and since he always felt uncontrollably passionate about everything, then clearly he was always right.

John Cleese

#5. DON'T TELL YOUR SECRETS.
A whisper can betray you.
DON'T EVER STOP.
They will always find you.
DON'T TRUST ANYONE.
Not even yourself.

Michelle Gagnon

#6. If you are not willing to stand up for anything or anybody, then why should the Creator take a single step to help you?

Suzy Kassem

#7. In policing, some uniforms and cars are black and white, but on the street, in the real world, nothing is black and white

Edmond Gagnon

#8. For most people, home we represented by four walls and a roof. Not for Noa. She preferred a motherboard to a mother, a keyboard to house keys. Nothing was more comforting than the hum of a spinning hard drive.

Michelle Gagnon

#9. For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

Albert Einstein

#10. I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get.

Bo Diddley

#11. To study foreign affairs without putting ourselves into others' shoes is to deal in illusion and to prepare students for a lifelong misunderstanding of our place in the world.

Paul Gagnon

#12. With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.

Hosea Ballou

#13. The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.

Samael Aun Weor

#14. 2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

P. Walter Gagnon

#15. DON'T GET TOO CLOSE.
friends can only hurt you.
DON'T SAY A WORD.
it may be your last.
DON'T SLOW DOWN.
they will catch you.

Michelle Gagnon

#16. The economic tsunami has hit all airline employees. With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules - we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

Chesley Sullenberger

#17. It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined.

William J. Brennan

#18. When you know a man's secrets, you have power over him. A man's secret is his weakness. Every man has a weakness, no matter ...

Brent Weeks

#19. I don't have many hours in a day, as I'm essentially a single parent. But fortunately, I'm a really fast writer. My goal is usually 10 pages a day. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but by the end of the week, I aim for at least 10,000 words.

Michelle Gagnon

#20. she was enveloped by a wave of calm. Funny how just seeing the giant logo of an apple with a bite out of it did that to her.

Michelle Gagnon

#21. The bane of my existence is the synopses that publishers request for a new novel or series. That's where I'm really producing fiction - my final book never ends up looking like the synopsis.

Michelle Gagnon

#22. If you want a great vacation, go to an all-inclusive resort"
If you want a great travel adventure, go anywhere else

Edmond Gagnon

#23. No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package.

Tina Brown

#24. In the name of anti-discrimination those who uphold moral values are discriminated against while those who violate such values receive affirmative action.

Robert A. J. Gagnon

#25. We moved around a bit when I was younger, but I grew up primarily in Rhode Island, in a beautiful seaside community called East Greenwich. It was a small town, and so safe that we rarely locked our doors at night.

Michelle Gagnon

#26. Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

Stephen Hawking

#27. As my future crumbled before my eyes, I grasped for the rope. My entire life's struggle was ending here, in plain view of my enemies. How was it possible? Had had I let things come to this?

Tony McMahon

#28. I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom of fiction, where I get to invent everything, and tidy, conclusive endings are within my control.

Michelle Gagnon

#29. There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world of favours and backscratching.

Michael Longley