Giller Prize Quotes

#1. I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.

Penn Jillette

#2. Inside your soul is the ability to survive even the toughest storms, and that paradise can always be found
even in the middle of a hurricane
if you are willing to look.

Denise Hildreth Jones

#3. Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#4. There are areas of New England, plenty of them, with quaintness to spare, with color-changing leaves and folksy folks full of folksy homespun wisdom accompanied by folksy accents

A. Lee Martinez

#5. I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.

Colin Firth

#6. Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.

Golo Mann

#7. The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid.

Julie Rivkin

#8. Does vengeance or blame ease the sorrow of heart-ache? We all make mistakes. Life can't be lived without harm to others.

Janny Wurts

#9. Joy could be as exhausting as grief.

Helen Kieran Reilly

#10. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before.

Jim Butcher

#11. The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

Edith Hamilton

#12. Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Anita Brookner

#13. Look up, always. Look back, never.

Karen Quan

#14. Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

Herbert Spencer

#15. Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

Daniel Berrigan