Silverwing Quotes

#1. When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary.

Kenneth Oppel

#2. So he dreams himself the life he cannot have?" "Exactly. But we, who can do anything, we refuse to live our dreams on the basis that they are not practical. So tell me, who is to be pitied more?

Helen Simonson

#3. I got mad love for hot tubs.

Craig Robinson

#4. Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.

Sam Harris

#5. My own ongoing research among secular Americans-as well as that of a handful of other social scientists who have only recently turned their gaze on secular culture-confirms that nonreligious family life is replete with its own sustaining moral values and enriching ethical precepts.

Phil Zuckerman

#6. The Israeli people are skeptical about the chances of a long-term peace, but if they saw it, they'd grab it. Any Israeli government that wants to be reelected should be interested in a lasting peace.

Jonathan Powell

#7. After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

Dan Hawkins

#8. It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent.

Paul A. Baran

#9. If you consider people, not countries, global inequality is falling rapidly.

Charles Wheelan

#10. When the rivers and air are polluted, when families and nations are at war, when homeless wanderers fill the highways, these are traditional signs of a dark age. Another is that people become poisoned by self-doubt and become cowards.

Pema Chodron

#11. Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language.

Alice McDermott

#12. think Cool Girl could ever really like me.

James Patterson