Winnepeg Quotes

#1. Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.

Yann Martel

#2. Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.

Chantal Kreviazuk

#3. Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.

James Bovard

#4. I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

Jodi Picoult

#5. I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ...

Patti Smith

#6. Christ was one person, limited to ministry in only one place at a time. In order to minister as an omnipresent Spirit, Jesus relinquished His fleshly dimension with its limitations of time and place. He entered a higher realm of restoration and love by becoming an indwelling Spirit.

Earl Paulk

#7. It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'

Mike Farrell

#8. There was a red button on the wall labelled EMERGENCY, but no button labelled BEWILDERMENT.

Michel Faber

#9. Practically every successful person you know of is successful, in part, because they moved the destructive and disruptive people out of their lives.

Bryant McGill

#10. The deepest dependency is not of students upon teachers, but of teachers upon students.

Peter Elbow

#11. When seeking guidance, don't ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#12. All good tales are true tales, at least for those who read them, which is all that counts.

Javier Cercas

#13. Nostalgia was nothing more than dissatisfaction with the present. Anything looked better than now, even harder times. It was a fantasy that people accept.

V.C. Andrews

#14. The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War.

Robert Conquest

#15. In a perfect world, I would do 3 weeks on 3 weeks off; so that I could always take a breather and come back to music with a fresh mind.

Tristan Prettyman

#16. The first fat raindrop landed on the back of Galen's hand. He tilted back his head and saw the clouds he had noticed the previous eve had grown thicker, heavier with rain. They blocked the sun as the wind began to pick up. "Shite," Logan cursed as he stood. "Just what we need.

Donna Grant