Yvenson Telus Quotes

#1. The fact that we are culturally ignorant and we don't know what our heritage is, the price that we pay is that we act outside of ourselves almost all the time. We make very bad decisions how we deal with other people and their culture.

Wynton Marsalis

#2. I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was the century that produced the models of the form. I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst, and I'm not an intellectual.

John Irving

#3. In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in a word. When I write, I read everything out loud to get the right rhythm.

Fran Lebowitz

#4. It is the men of this land who are bloodthirsty and they lay their own guilt on the gods.

Edith Hamilton

#5. When a continent is poisoned by lies, truth must be an exile.

Jason Goodwin

#6. TEACHER
Let us begin. Repeat after me. I would like
STUDENT
I wud like
TEACHER
To feed your fingertips
STUDENT
To feed yur fingerteeps
TEACHER
To the wolverines.

Michael O'Donoghue

#7. It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

Elie Wiesel

#8. I wish I was a phone machine. I wish if I saw somebody on the street I didn't want to talk to I could just go, "Excuse me, I'm not here right now, If you just leave a message, I can walk away."

Jerry Seinfeld

#9. I harden my glare and my heart.

A.G. Howard

#10. A miracle that can never be: your face, your hands, pledged to me.

Julie Berry

#11. Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.

Theodore Parker