Quotes About Antigua

#1. I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.

Jamaica Kincaid

#2. I have only ever been to Antigua to hop over to other Caribbean islands. The airport had always seemed perfectly lovely, but I'm a quiet sort of holiday girl, and Antigua always seemed big.

Jane Green

#3. I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before.

Arthur Lewis

#4. I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying her life. There is something about this book that drives people mad with the autobiographical question.

Jamaica Kincaid

#5. ...you look at me like an emergency

Adrienne Rich

#6. I can't believe I get to marry you." The words slipped from her in a soft tone of amazement.
He reached out and cradled her cheek in his palm. "I was just thinking the exact same thing.

Gaelen Foley

#7. Every Journey, no matter how far, starts with one step

Eric Walters

#8. Life is not a matter for simple optimism
for there is evil; nor for mere pessimism
for there is good. The possibility for good in the face of evil is what gives life tragic meaning.

Rollo May

#9. Until death do YOUR part.

Patricia Hartman

#10. Of course I wasn't abused. If I were; things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.

Ned Vizzini

#11. Those who can write, write.
Those who can't, criticize.

Max Hawthorne

#12. If you are in Bangkok, you will find that people there will never speak to you without joining their hands. It's not that they are speaking to you like that because you are tourists. They even speak at their home like that.

Akshay Kumar

#13. The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?

Julian Barnes

#14. For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete.

Richard Matheson

#15. We are all born like Catholics, aren't we - in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

Yann Martel

#16. I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.

Salman Rushdie

#17. In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice!

Curtis Stone