Remembrance Day 2017 Quotes

#1. There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.

Chaske Spencer

#2. The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

Nicole Krauss

#3. Like maybe he really, truly believes I'm worth listening to, worth saving.

Matthew Quick

#4. We feel our lives are worth living after we discover something worth dying for.

Jeffrey Fry

#5. Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory that He is the Supreme Being, and therefore Sovereign of the universe.

Arthur W. Pink

#6. They'd been played. By a tuba!

Jude Watson

#7. Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. How many times must I tell you not to kill anyone tonight? It's like a sickness with you, isn't it? Have you ever gone a whole day without committing murder?"
"Has anyone who's spent their whole day with you?" I muttered.

Jeaniene Frost

#9. I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.

Margaret Atwood

#10. The dynamic range of the digital camera is pretty crappy compared to film, but now film is not great because the labs have closed. It's going to hurt a lot of the movies that we did in this gap because I think they are going to look very old very soon.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#11. The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.

Sara Paretsky