Indigenous Literature Quotes

#1. The Malays can hardly be said to have an indigenous literature, for it is almost entirely derived from Persia, Siam, Arabia, and Java. Arabic is their sacred language.

Isabella Bird

#2. Can the Flood choose to infect, or not to infect?

Greg Bear

#3. I know that voodoo priests really do belief they can talk to the other side and vampires should never sparkle

Jennifer Martinez

#4. You hated what we had done, and it had meant so much to me. I hated you after that.

S.C. Stephens

#5. A man kills enough. A woman keeps on walking.

Marie Clements

#6. Competition forces factory owners to mechanize production, so as to reduce labor costs, but while this is to the short-term advantage of the individual firm, the overall effect of such mechanization is actually to drive the overall rate of profit of all firms down.

David Graeber

#7. Certainly it is a different world for players nowadays. But it depends on the individual.

Franz Beckenbauer

#8. And he likes to torment me, and laughs when I get upset when he does. No, of course not. I do not love Jack Elliot. He is low and coarse and a soldier, and not the kind of man I want to spend my life with.

Nancy E. Turner

#9. WHILE writing, just try to have fun with your ms. Enjoy the process, but push on. Always push toward the finish line!

Darynda Jones

#10. The spirit of Christmas is Christlike love.

Bonnie L. Oscarson

#11. They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'

Robert B. Parker

#12. Self-consciousness kills communication.

Rick Steves

#13. If you want to get broken in good, put four girls on the road together in a van and tour up and down the country.

Valerie June

#14. I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

Rip Taylor