Stollery Quotes

#1. The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.

Donald Wuerl

#2. A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

#3. Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#4. Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

Red Barber

#5. I'll find you. I will. We'll be together again.

Sophie Jordan

#6. I like the way you can stretch things out and leave a huge amount of space that, on a record, would feel like silence. I enjoy the possibilities.

John Parish

#7. When you really respect somebody who does something different from you, your respect is for the quality of the job.

Dave Hickey

#8. Kids are not physical creatures, and they're not stupid. They know all about violence and power and raw emotions. What's really scary is when adults pretend that such things don't exist."

(Grossman's review of The Hunger Games in "Time" magazine, Sept. 7, 2009)

Lev Grossman

#9. It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Lawrence Durrell