Oka Crisis Quotes

#1. When I want to get anywhere, I usually do.

Agatha Christie

#2. That's what I wanted. Something to enrich me, to make me feel better about the things in my life that I could never change." - Page 56

Sophie Jordan

#3. Food and wine. Decide which is the soloist, which the accompanist.

Michael Broadbent

#4. Coming off the last turn, my thoughts changed from 'One more try ... one more try ... one more try ... ' to 'I can win! I can win! I can win!

Billy Mills

#5. I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.

Maya Angelou

#6. Government research has to go through peer review.

Peter Diamandis

#7. Language is not morally neutral because the human brain is not neutral in its desires. Neither is the dog brain. Neither is the bird brain: crows hate owls. We like some things and dislike others, we approve of some things and disapprove of others. Such is the nature of being an organism.

Margaret Atwood

#8. Best hope for what, Catman? Death? Bankruptcy? You know, my life was going along ... well, rather crappily, to be honest, but at least no one was trying to kill me and no one was dying around me. Since I met you, my life has taken the high road to Shitsville, with no off-ramp in sight. (Susan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

Gregory Orr

#10. I know you. I've known you my whole life. I've been waiting. Waiting for you to make an appearance. Waiting all these years.
I knew you in the womb.

Dennis Lehane

#11. My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.

Carol Vorderman

#12. And now I'm at home on a laptop again, typing out stuff for this chapter that you are reading right now, possibly on a screen as well!

Aziz Ansari

#13. There's a book inside everyone. So what's your story?

Aly Walsh