Quotes About Antilles

#1. Oh Paris
From red to green all the yellow dies away
Paris Vancouver Hyeres Maintenon New York and the Antilles
The window opens like an orange
The beautiful fruit of light
("Windows")

Guillaume Apollinaire

#2. The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

Derek Walcott

#3. Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles

Robert Ludlum

#4. No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence.
-General Wedge Antilles

Aaron Allston

#5. Thane had never been one of the idealists; he'd accepted Wedge Antilles's invitation not because he believed the Rebellion was pure good but because he'd learned the Empire was pure evil.

Claudia Gray

#6. The pilot, Wedge Antilles, once Red Leader and now - well, now something else, a role without a formal title, as yet,

Chuck Wendig

#7. England and Brittany were places one came back from. But America, the colonies, and the Antilles were lost in some unknown region on the other side of the world.

Gustave Flaubert

#8. ... The Antilles and Horn clans sat at a folding table between two StealthXs, playing what looked like a cutthroat game of sabacc.

Aaron Allston

#9. Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ... the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted.

Ned Sublette

#10. Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want."
"We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to."
"Thanks."
Wedge & Tycho

Aaron Allston

#11. This is Wedge Antilles of the New Republic. I am trapped on the Star Destroyer Vigilance in the space above Akiva, and I am in -

Chuck Wendig

#12. I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

J.D. Salinger

#13. We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.

George W. Bush

#14. Anyone who survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life.

Anne Lamott

#15. As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

Kadir Nelson

#16. machine. Unexpectedly, I'd invented a time

Alan Moore

#17. I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

Philip Pullman

#18. In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.

Tariq Ali

#19. Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. [ ... ] You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head's in a whirl. And then you feel light as a feather, and before you know it, you're walking on air. And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop, and you completely lose your head!

Walt Disney Company