Anisfield Quotes & Sayings

I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation ... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media. — Peter L. Bergen

I wasn't expecting that. It hit me in a place I didn't know was there. All I could think of was one of those medical shows. They're operating on some poor slob, they accidentally nick an artery, and he starts gushing. 'We got a bleeder!' the surgeon yells, and everybody comes rushing to the operating table. Nobody was rushing to me, though. — Neal Shusterman

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose. — Jonathan Raban

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

If you love animals, please don't eat them. — Esha Gupta

I think ninjas are probably quieter than SEALs, but we are better swimmers, and also better with guns and blowing things up. — William H. McRaven

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please. — Bram Stoker

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life. — Coretta Scott King

Will you say England belongs to other nationals because they are there in largenumbers? — Raj Thackeray

I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction. — Joyce Carol Oates

See, I remember love. That's what people don't understand. — Melina Marchetta

But you said the words you knew, which were not always the ones you meant. — Edith Pearlman

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket. — Kary Mullis

You are my pearl without a price.
-Ren, Tiger's Curse — Colleen Houck

At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just. — Pope Benedict XVI