Retrospective Meeting Quotes

#1. He allowed his eyelids to unclose themselves a tiny fraction, letting his head still loll limply on his neck.

Stephen King

#2. In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

Gary Shteyngart

#3. If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.

Wendell Berry

#4. They shot the ball well early. What comes out of the microwave hot doesn't always stay hot. I know, because I eat bagels in the morning.

Shaquille O'Neal

#5. Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

Lance Bass

#6. As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

Peter Ackroyd

#7. If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.

Charles Stross

#8. Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.

Suze Orman

#9. What I tried to do is to present the evidence that's available and that no one has been able to refute. Not even the Arab governments who own their media have been able to denigrate bin Laden as a man.

Michael Scheuer

#10. My Mom and Dad and brother have grown through the years into my closest friends, the people who tell me the most searing truth, who give me soft places to rest and present to me a bright future when the only one I can see from my vantage point is dim and breaking before my eyes.

Shauna Niequist