Quinte Quotes

#1. Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

Nic Pizzolatto

#2. That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

Jodi Picoult

#3. River water and talent can't be stopped forever.

Vinita Kinra

#4. Some stories are rooted in adventure, some in strife. Others are born of the heart, and the horrors and the joys locked therein are often immeasurable, and make us truly wonder what became of those children we once were.

David E. Hilton

#5. What an indictment that is, of the Ivy League and its peers: that colleges four levels down on the academic totem pole, enrolling students whose SAT scores are hundreds of points lower than theirs, deliver a better education, in the highest sense of the word, than do those institutions.

William Deresiewicz

#6. There's no doubt that he's the biggest sports star in the world now.
(on David Beckham)

Nick Hornby

#7. My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.

Steve Coogan

#8. If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with laws.

Immanuel Velikovsky

#9. A perfect, enduring friendship between a couple of freaks

Stephanie Rowe

#10. In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1970. I received my doctorate in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where I wrote my dissertation on William Faulkner's early novels.

Laurence Yep

#11. What if God was one of us, just a slob like one of us?

Joan Osborne

#12. Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.

Jamaica Kincaid

#13. That matchless remedy (for self realisation) is renunciation of fruits of action.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

Amy Grant