Ava Karabatic Quotes & Sayings

Diversity is wisdom. — Sheila Renee Parker

Rest easy, Miss Charingford," he said. "I wasn't attempting to seduce you. I had come to no conclusions about your virtue. I was only talking to you because you were the eleventh prettiest young lady in Leicester. — Courtney Milan

Let all Americans sit down and read this great document. Since the Constitution's ratification, it has been the framework for our great nation. — Bob Latta

It was strange how in that moment of tragedy, it had seemed so unreal, like an old-fashioned movie reel playing on a screen for my eyes only. The pain and broken heart were blocked off for a little while, leaving me numb with disbelief. Shock is what Dad called it. But after a while, the cruel reality started to seep into my tissues, and my body became a sponge, just sucking it all up until, finally, there was so much grief inside, I couldn't help feeling it.
That's how it happened for me. First, the numbness right after she died, next the agonising pain and then the place I was at now - the land of perpetual depression. — Karen Ann Hopkins

"eL Seed" was inspired by the French play Le Cid by Pierre Corneille. It was seeing "Le Cid" coming from the Arabic name "el sayed," which means "the master, the man." So I called myself like that because I was 16; I said, "Yes, I'm the man." That's how it started. — EL Seed

The main problem is that many support the United Russia Party without even agreeing with its ideology - or even having an ideology of their own. — Vladislav Surkov

I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about! — Rita Dove

I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural. — Cathy Freeman

Forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation. — Michael Pollan

It's indignity you can't stand, Hannibal, you're like a cat that way. — Thomas Harris

Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness. — Ben Casnocha

I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of times in all sorts of ways that no physicist really questions the end point. I think that these experiments are very clearly telling us that consciousness is limitless and the ultimate reality. — Robert Lanza