Matthew Clairmont Quotes

#1. Be yourself
Matthew Clairmont. Complete with your sharp vampire teeth and your scary mother, your test tubes full of blood and your DNA, your infuriating bossiness and your maddening sense of smell.

Deborah Harkness

#2. I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.

Margaret Atwood

#3. Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

Deborah Harkness

#4. For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.

Barack Obama

#5. You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.

Deborah Harkness

#6. I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#7. Zane, six, knows that AIBO doesn't have a "real brain and heart," but they are "real enough." AIBO is "kind of alive" because it can function "as if it had a brain and heart.

Sherry Turkle

#8. My wife Kari and I have three incredible kids. And like parents everywhere, we want our children to grow up in a country and a world that is peaceful, and where, if they work hard, they can reach their God-given potential.

Denis McDonough

#9. Vision (know what you want)
Passion (know why you want it)
Commitment (know how you're going to get there)

Renee Rearden

#10. I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

Augusten Burroughs

#11. We need to look closely at our relationships to see whether they are based primarily on mutual need or on mutual happiness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#12. You glided over to me and, as I was struggling to think of something intelligent to say, you said "There you are". I often think of that, Sue. Here I am. No matter where I am in the world, "Here I am".

Jessica Brockmole