Words Ising Quotes

#1. In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

Catharine A. MacKinnon

#2. The dedication of Don Winslow's novel 'The Cartel' is nearly two pages long: a list of journalists who were either murdered or 'disappeared' in Mexico between 2004 and 2012 - the period covered in this hugely hypnotic new thriller.

Alan Cheuse

#3. At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.

Dan Simmons

#4. I learned the hula, so now I know how to shake my booty Hawaiian style.

Sanjaya Malakar

#5. What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.

Bruce Jackson

#6. LILY FELL OUT OF THE SKY.

Josephine Angelini

#7. I came up on the screen, too, Cassia," he says quietly. "But he was the one you chose to see.

Ally Condie

#8. Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?

Rick Riordan

#9. We all traverse in and out of people's worlds, leaving footprints. Some larger, some smaller, but there is always a mark. We can't sweep it away.

Krista Ritchie

#10. However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

#11. Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

Claire Danes

#12. He cannot deny a certain relief in being able to sift through academic tomes, fulfilling his journalistic duty without having to barge past security guards at the Arab League or grab man-on-the-street from women at the market. This library work is easily his favorite part of reporting so far.

Tom Rachman

#13. L.A. is ... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

Mamie Gummer

#14. If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.

Shlomo Sand