Chief Guest Introduction Speech Quotes & Sayings

Never allow the opinions and criticisms of people deter you in the pursuit of your goals. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Science and religion are both guilty of committing atrocities," King Solomon continued. "They are not evil in and of themselves, but in the hands of evil men they can be manipulated to produce great destruction. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Ron's eyebrows rose so high that they were in danger of disappearing into his hair. — J.K. Rowling

At end of Life, you realize life is enough. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I hurl the glass teapot to the ground.
we both stare at it, stunned.
"it was supposed to break," I explain after a pause, " and that was going to signify that yes, I would throw something away . If I knew it wasn't right for me. — Sophie Kinsella

Watching this little scene makes my throat ache. It seems an apt metaphor for the role most men play--even in egalitarian modern marriages--as quasi-outsiders in their own families. Of course, men have always contributed importantly to the family, and our wives and children would miss us if we were gone. But there's also a tacit understanding that we are the expendable ones: if something evil comes through the front door, everyone knows whose job it is to die guarding the family's retreat out the back. Men are a little on the periphery of family life, cut off from the biologically precious mother and children as though by an invisible pane of glass. — Jonathan Gottschall

Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense. — Bear McCreary

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. — Socrates

Out of the corner of my eye, I watched him glaring at me from his "box" as I liked to call it. His pale cheeks were mottled with red, the bald area on his head shining brightly underneath the artificial light. He was thick-set with thick lips that were currently tight with annoyance. — Rose Wynters