The Blind Assassin Quotes

#1. The ancestral voices were prophesying war because ancestral voices never shut up, and they hate to be wrong, and war is a sure thing, sooner or later.

Margaret Atwood

#2. Fear of failure is expressed in negative goal-setting, indecisiveness, and fear of adverse consequences

Sunday Adelaja

#3. For a moment, she wasn't Mia Corvere, daughter of a murdered house, parched with the thirst for revenge. Not a fledgling assassin or a servant of a goddess. Just a girl. And he a boy. Their eyes blind to all but each other. Aalea's voice echoing in her ears.

Jay Kristoff

#4. All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.

Beth Nielsen Chapman

#5. I think the problem with President Obama - and I like him personally, I came into the Senate with him - is his agenda.

John Thune

#6. My wings are always black.

Rachel Wade

#7. I didn't know I was about to be left with her idea of me; with her idea of my goodness pinned onto me like a badge and no chance to throw it back at her (as would have been the normal course of affairs with a mother and a daughter - if she'd lived, as I'd grown older).

Margaret Atwood

#8. In case you're wondering, vanity never ends.

Margaret Atwood

#9. Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.

Margaret Atwood

#10. I fear being alone more than anything else. So why do I do this? Why do I push away the people I love? What is so very wrong with me?
I don't know.
And I don't know how to make it stop.

Victoria Aveyard

#11. Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

Rupert Murdoch

#12. Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.

Mark Zuckerberg

#13. A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.

Biz Stone

#14. Cats don't caress us-they caress themselves on us.

Antoine Rivarol

#15. I want to help the helpless, but I don't want to help the clueless.

Dennis Miller

#16. Life is the elimination of what is dead.

Wallace Stevens

#17. Bren pulled me close and chuckled in my ear. "Damn, kid. Are you in trouble." That was bad enough. His next comment was worse. "Don't worry, Aric. Celia and I don't have sex as much as we used to.

Cecy Robson

#18. You don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much. (The Blind Assassin, 137).

Margaret Atwood

#19. How I would like to have them back, those pointless afternoons - the boredom, the aimlessness, the unformed possibilities.

Margaret Atwood

#20. One look at a banana and you can tell it came from outer space.

Margaret Atwood

#21. Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.

Margaret Atwood