Getahun Bekele Quotes

#1. I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat

Deb Caletti

#2. People tend to focus on the "magic" more than the "realism." But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road of untruth.

Salman Rushdie

#3. A proper saute pan, for instance, should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent - the victim's head or your pan - then throw that pan right in the trash.

Anthony Bourdain

#4. To my knowledge nobody - no one who is publishing papers in the main field of AI - is even working on consciousness. I think there are some neuroscientists who are trying to understand it, but I'm not aware that they've made any progress.

Stuart J. Russell

#5. Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#6. I don't take off time from teaching to write. I take time off from writing to teach.

Steven Millhauser

#7. It had a sort of a head on it, like a mushroom, and its color was reddish purple. It looked blunt and stupid, compared, say, to fingers and toes with their intelligent expressiveness, or even to an elbow or a knee.

Alice Munro

#8. Just for the record, saying 'The surprise hasn't started yet' while pulling something out of your pants pocket is super creepy."
"Yeah," I heard him say, "I regretted it immediately, but it was too late to switch to something else.

Temple West

#9. Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

Anthony Eden

#10. I still have so much passion to perform ... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.

Johnny Weir

#11. When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.

Tony Campolo

#12. I don't think Indians have learnt much since that day. We remain as divided as ever. Everyone still tries to cut a deal for themselves while the nation goes to hell.

Chetan Bhagat

#13. The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and to retard the march of civilization.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#14. I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

Nigel Dennis