Akoka Quotes & Sayings

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will? — Edward Abbey

The one you love, your anam cara, your soul friend, is the truest mirror to reflect your soul. — John O'Donohue

I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding. — Anthony Horowitz

Jean Grey, the Phoenix ... she finds a way to reincarnate herself constantly, so one never knows. — Famke Janssen

I'm cute, Mommy's cute, and Daddy's ... " She tore her gaze up to meet his.
"Daddy's lucky," he finished for her. — Katie Ashley

I don't like to use writing assignments, exercises. I think too often people get comfortable writing in that vein, but you can't go on to write a novel comprised of short writing exercises. — Chang-rae Lee

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God. — Jonathan Edwards

Sometimes I feel like if two parents were given $100, and a child-free person was given $100, everyone would assume that the parents would invest their money wisely because they're smart. And people like me would just go buy candy. — Jen Kirkman

The contrast between genetic and environmental, between nature and nurture, is not a contrast between fixed and changeable. It is a fallacy of biological determinism to say that if differences are in the genes, no change can occur. — Richard C. Lewontin

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping. — Rita Rudner

I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic. — Patrick Kavanagh

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart. — George R R Martin

The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep. — Barbara Kingsolver