Imison Awards Quotes

#1. Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.

Doris Lessing

#2. I'll tell you, I go absolutely bananas for phallic-shaped fruit.

Jarod Kintz

#3. Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.

John Dryden

#4. What does an administrative assistant do? I wondered.

Gillian Flynn

#5. My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

Gary Locke

#6. I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

Victoria Beckham

#7. The knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#8. Honesty is not just keeping your ass away from people but also clean.

M.F. Moonzajer

#9. Finding a sponsor is the toughest part of racing, tougher than driving.

Shawna Robinson

#10. This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

Barry Diller

#11. The attentions of Wilkie Mackenzie were a conquest, an aspiration, a dream. The fresh memory of all those women, batting their eyelashes coquettishly, it boiled in my veins. One in particular. And Wilkie looked almost amused, now that his own jealousy had eased. "Are you jealous, my love?

Juliette Miller