Maud Watts Quotes

#1. It is to overlook the culture that has focused, down the centuries, on the business of repentance.

Roger Scruton

#2. He told me that while he was in a Chinese Communist gulag for almost eighteen years, he faced danger on a few occasions. I thought he was referencing a threat to his own life. But when I asked, "What danger?" he answered, "Losing compassion toward the Chinese.

Dalai Lama XIV

#3. Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.

Eliot Weinberger

#4. The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

Gregory Maguire

#5. If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.

Kara Hayward

#6. Larry Bird just throws the ball in the air and God moves the basket underneath it.

Howie Chizek

#7. Marriage is contagious and so is monogamy.

Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

#8. Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.

Eric Schlosser

#9. When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.

Anurag Kashyap

#10. A surefire method of setting up regular communication with your kids is to get a job in an office which discourages personal phone calls. Your kids will then call you every hour on the hour.

Teresa Bloomingdale

#11. Know Scripture, know yourself, and know the need around you.2

Jennie Allen

#12. I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

Jim Harrison