Saariaho Ballade Quotes

#1. Scully was doing the driving, which she preferred. Mulder knew only two speeds: fast and faster.

Les Martin

#2. The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

Robert Ballard

#4. Their path to advancement might look less like a straight line and more like some of the pressure distributions and orbits they plotted, but they were determined to take a seat at the table.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#5. The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it's over.

Ryan Holiday

#6. I hope to turn my reader into the quiet person in the corner who, even when no one is telling them anything, sees everything.

Damali Ayo

#7. Who was it who had said you were only as happy as your unhappiest child?

Jojo Moyes

#8. Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.

George Saunders