Whale Talk By Chris Crutcher Quotes

#1. I have no personal agenda in whether or not a library keeps 'Whale Talk' or 'Athletic Shorts' or any of my books shelved.

Chris Crutcher

#2. I serve."
"Serve who?"
"Heaven. Or the divine in nature. The memory of my fathers past. My fellow man. Myself. All pieces of the same thing.

Jim Butcher

#3. If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

Marian Wright Edelman

#4. In 2004, one of my books, 'Whale Talk,' was chosen as an all-school read in Fowlerville, Michigan, a rural town not far from Detroit. They had done what I thought was a brilliant and innovative thing: decided to teach the book in every discipline, sophomores through seniors.

Chris Crutcher

#5. The important thing isn't what other people think you are; it's who you are.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

Jean De La Bruyere

#7. One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing

Norman Maclean

#8. I'm not sure exactly how gossiping about my life with my audience really helps them.

Tyra Banks

#9. Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

Sidney Howard

#10. 'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.

Chris Crutcher

#11. Maybe there was a reason for me waking up and becoming a better person. Maybe it was because all along I was meant to find you and the person I was before wasn't worthy of having you. But I swear, now that I have you, I'm never going to let you go.

Amanda Stone

#12. I do not wish to believe and I cannot believe that evil is the normal state of humanity.

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

Queen Latifah

#14. Sometimes the worst insults are the ones that prey on our deepest fears.

Cambria Hebert

#15. History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.

Richard Lamm

#16. I would say history is a clear witness to many of the problems that have erupted when two partners from the same industry or same country have come together.

Sunil Mittal

#17. I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.

Adrian Grenier

#18. Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!

Jacqueline Wilson