Kweku Ananse Quotes

#1. I was reaching for one of the handles when I heard Heidler's voice from behind me. 'It would not be wise to enter. It is a bad time to disturb the dead.

Micheal Rivers

#2. For the years I spent working on it, 'Constellation' was the only novel I knew how to write, so maybe I still abided by the maxim? Regardless, I prefer the maxim: Write what you want to know, rather than what you already know.

Anthony Marra

#3. This is the thing I have discovered: Michael's being gone doesn't mean we stop trying to save him. The strain is less but it doesn't vanish. It becomes part of our bewilderment, a kind of activity without motive, which provides its own strange continuity.

Adam Haslett

#4. In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought we'd come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.

Harvey Gantt

#5. So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him."
"I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.

Josh Lanyon

#7. To find God, you must welcome everything.

Rabindranath Tagore

#8. The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession.

Joely Richardson

#9. For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the First Amendment. Only in recent years have we witnessed this corporate takeover of our First Amendment, culminating in the Citizens United ruling.

John Bonifaz

#10. If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

Archibald MacLeish

#11. I grew up craving the spotlight, and once it happened, I immediately recoiled.

Megan Fox

#12. Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.

Matthew Fox

#13. Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.

Edward Snowden

#14. Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?"
"Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.

Philip K. Dick

#15. A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

Ellen Glasgow