Top 14 Olvidado Quotes
#1. We watch a character define himself entirely through what he will not claim. If I could choose one item from my entire apartment, what would I disown? It might be my trash can full of ripped paper packets, which might mean that this pile of packets is my most honest expression of self.
Leslie Jamison
#2. Critics all have this idea that authors inhabit another dimensional realm, right up to their first smack in the mouth - which feels to them quite miraculous, being their sex-dream come true.
Don Paterson
#3. I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
Rebecca Makkai
#4. You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys.
Ted Cruz
#5. Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
Anita Brookner
#6. The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.
Steve Jobs
#7. Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
Carl Sagan
#8. Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#9. Finally ... You have accomplished your mission in going there tonight - you were 'seen,' and you furnished your host and hostess with the sincerest proof of your great love and friendship for them - you endured their cocktail party.
Letitia Baldrige
#11. He had always been irreproachable in his conduct, and as a consequence, his capacity for empathy was small.
Eleanor Catton
#12. My boys wear red pants or crazy color tops. My kids are more fashion forward in their own dressing.
Heidi Klum
#13. Turn your talent loose with room to run. Talent wants to romp and play.
Jay Perry
#14. I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.
Tim Vine