Top 18 Shortlist Quotes
#1. I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but the year that there were six extraordinary books on the shortlist.
Richard Flanagan
#2. The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.
Seth Godin
#3. The great news is we have an all-female shortlist with no positive discrimination or anything, isn't that fantastic?
Andrea Leadsom
#4. With all those prizes the most interesting thing is getting on to the shortlist, because that tells you who people see as your peers.
David Malouf
#6. My brother's friend worked at a TV station, so we went in; the producer of a show asked if I wouldn't mind taking some photos for his wife, who was a talent agent. Next thing I know, I'm enroute to the agency.
Godfrey Gao
#7. Although I have no fish, / I do not want any frog; / Or any elderberries either, / Instead of a bunch of grapes: / Although I have no love, / I do not want anything else, / Whether Love is gracious to me or hostile.
Hadewijch
#8. One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us.
Michio Kaku
#9. You grow up readings about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and just when you think the world's all full of amazing things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nuclear waste hanging about millions of years.
Neil Gaiman
#10. It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost as if in sorrowing. There is no sorrowing. For sorrow is a thing that is swallowed up in death, and death and dying are the very life of the darkness.
Jakob Bohme
#12. The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever ... because they already live in a dream world.
Sigmund Freud
#13. A hidden gem of knowledge awaits.."
"in the trees of wisdom where He mandates."
"the right to read the tomes of our people ... "
"to find your answers on defeating the evil.
Candace Knoebel
#14. Do not even suggest jazz. I saw Newsies and was traumatized for, like, five years.
Richelle Mead
#15. Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.
Gwen Ifill
#16. On a cloudless night, inky dark, with only a rind of a moon above, the Golem and the Jinni went walking together along the Prince Street rooftops.
Helene Wecker
#17. Only species in nature that doesn't commit adultery and in which there seems to be one hundred percent monogamy is a flatworm, Diplozoon paradoxum.
Paulo Coelho
#18. You can love infinity, eternity, Scotty dogs, sports, work, play, the feelings of being alive, the earth, the sky, the fire, the wind ... there's a lot you can love.
Frederick Lenz
