Sinead Starling Quotes

#1. You'll be boarding the nine twenty-one commercial flight as Shirley and Roderick Cliphorn."
"Roderick Cliphorn?" Dan groaned. Only someone with a name like Sinead Starling would have considered that normal.

Peter Lerangis

#2. Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account.
-Sinead Starling

Gordon Korman

#3. Lovely," Nellie whispered. "A double-crosser wouldn't spend all this time gardening and planting flowers, would they?"
...
Sinead Starling opened the door.
"Ah," Nellie said. "I guess I was wrong.

Jude Watson

#4. Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won't let it be free.

Benazir Bhutto

#5. The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think.

Sylvia Plath

#8. At heart, 'Chef' is a daddy-daycare fable about an overextended man who teaches his 10-year-old son the family business and learns to love him.

Richard Corliss

#9. You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

Ben Elton

#10. The secret of success is constancy of purpose. - BENJAMIN DISRAELI

William Bill Damon

#11. When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.

Peter Thiel

#12. Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.

Suzanne Collins

#13. You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?

Peter Watts

#14. It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to work for.

Shannon Miller

#15. Does tension exist between our perfect longings and the imperfect world?

Terrence Real

#16. People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.

Theodore Kaczynski

#17. The Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning.

George Orwell

#18. People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single window that shows me a cement wall. This is a profession, and it's important to have professionalism about the writing.

Nathaniel Philbrick