Look To Windward Quotes

#1. It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays; for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists. They

George Orwell

#2. Do you know how writers often say the characters take over ... But that is more or less what it always feels like to me, too. Even though that's just a way of describing how your brain is working, it's still what you tend to feel.

Wes Anderson

#3. The Duplass brothers do that so well - that very simple, very horrifically awkward comedy.

Timothy Simons

#4. Can I ask you a question? I swear it's not about heaven."
Joi laughs. "Shoot."
"Why do you love me?" I ask her.
"Because you love me back," she says without hesitation.
"You have no idea how much," I tell her.
"Yes, I do," she says.

Kirsten Miller

#5. I'm smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does; but I'll tell you where he beats me and he beats the world. he don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight, but it scares me like hell.

Philip Sheridan

#6. And it's Johnson, Johnson with the Quaffle, what a player that girl is, I've been saying it for years but she still won't go out with me - '
'JORDAN!' yelled Professor McGonagall.
'Just a fun fact, Professor, adds a bit of interest -

J.K. Rowling

#7. Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

Albert Einstein

#8. Ms. Fang is the nicest, sweetest teacher at Scary School. She only ate twelve kids last year.

Derek The Ghost

#9. In mysticism we have to take all the imprinting that has occurred to us and wash it. Then we need to be re-imprinted but in a different way. Without it, we don't survive.

Frederick Lenz

#10. I think, if I've learned anything over the years, it is that every single season is a unique one.

Jeff Probst

#11. When I arrived, I felt the spotlight shining brightly on me, and I knew the sharks were ready to strike if I did not pan out and prove myself to be the showman and the player the college ranks had labeled me to be.

Pete Maravich

#12. I was ten," I said. "Give me a little credit."
"To a boy with aspirations like that, I would extend my respect - but not credit. Or life insurance." Abraham sounded amused. "You are an interesting man, David Charleston, but you sound like you were an even more interesting child.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. I love hearing my music, I love hearing it by other people. I hope it will always be played.

Smokey Robinson

#14. Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

T. S. Eliot