Gratitude Weekend Quotes

#1. I've never been a believer in the word-count thing. I write slowly and tinker with the words and the word order, and I throw a lot of stuff out.

Adrian McKinty

#2. I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

Fannie Flagg

#3. Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe.

Brother Dave Gardner

#4. Birds are the magicians of the nature! They are here, they are there and they are everywhere!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.

Susan Abulhawa

#6. That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Aphra Behn

#7. If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.

Idris Elba

#8. As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

William Monahan

#9. I must say I'm not 100% fluent in Sign Language, but I am working on it!

Sundra Oakley