Hoynes Prize Quotes

#1. I don't even understand life right now. What is going on?

Jamie McGuire

#2. What if two people want to be your partner, then what?

Emily Giffin

#3. Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.

Donna Karan

#4. A sacred soul is a spiritual being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Deborah just watched him as he skidded to a stop in front of her. He seemed young for a dentist, maybe thirty, and in all honesty he looked a little too buff, too, as though he had been pumping iron when he should have been filling cavities. Deborah

Jeff Lindsay

#6. I had the Irish faculty of seeing some gleam of humor in every darkness.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#7. Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

Maltbie Davenport Babcock

#8. Old wives' tales - that is, worthless stories, untruths, trivial gossip, a derisive label that allots the art of storytelling to women at the exact same time as it takes all value from it.

Angela Carter

#9. His hair was parted neatly on the left side in a way that he would have found absolutely horrifying.

John Green

#10. Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#11. It's the worst thing that ever happened to anybody in America!

Edith Bouvier Beale

#12. I have my strong views and opinions. I really want to transform Illinois government because this state is failing the taxpayers and the children.

Bruce Rauner

#13. One of the fastest ways to move through your pain is to get a grip on reality.

Bryant McGill

#14. The food is out of this world!

Bill Maher

#15. I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

Peter Singer