Markela Deda Quotes

#1. Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.

Pat Conroy

#2. If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.

Lloyd Banks

#3. Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. I have a great life and I'm super active.

A. J. Langer

#5. The most consequential act of state ownership in the twentieth-century western world was not the nationalization of airlines or the nationalization of railways or the nationalization of health care, but the nationalization of the family.

Mark Steyn

#6. We need to broaden the horizon of our faith, putting more difficult tasks in front of us each time

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Uh, my lord, I am not actually food. You do realize this, yes?

Gail Carriger

#8. In Him is Everything. Him you must try to find.

Anandamayi Ma

#9. Get in the fucking car. You're a mean drunk.
You haven't seen me mean, mama's boy!
I told you we're close!
Yeah, so are me and my asshole! Doesn't mean I'm going to call it twice a day!

Jamie McGuire

#10. The mark of a legitimate revolution - the scientific, for example - was that it didn't brag about its revolutionariness but simply occurred.

Jonathan Franzen

#11. I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.

Rachel Joyce

#12. I was neither glad nor unhappy to see her, but maybe that's what shock does, because I was surprised, that I will say.

Alan Sillitoe

#13. Canadian is both harder and easier to explain. Nobody knows what it is even supposed to be, let far-out-alone what it actually is.

Judith Merril