Obstructiveness Quotes

#1. I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage.

Nicholson Baker

#2. The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

Lisa See

#3. Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. If there were a God, which I'm not certain that there is, do you think this night would be a form of apology

Brittainy C. Cherry

#5. Weed Rises to his feet. "Nature," he says softly, "makes so many beautiful things. But I did not know until you that nature could make a girl so beautiful.

Maryrose Wood

#6. Playing a Disney princess is the most amazing, unbelievable thing and on the other, it's completely terrifying. I would say it's a cocktail of every sort of emotion. Princesses are great role models, they teach you about grief loss and have big hearts.

Lily James

#7. I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.

Antonio Banderas

#8. Changelings are fish you're supposed to throw back. A cuckoo raised by sparrows. They don't quite fit anywhere. (pg. 134)

Holly Black

#9. Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#10. Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Ani DiFranco

#11. England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear And reign the sovereign of the conquered air.

Thomas Gray