Cnever Quotes & Sayings

I used to believe authenticity could be achieved solely by describing, in our own words, one's own fragment of experience. This was of course predicated on the complete intellectual and aesthetic independence of the "I". One eventually realizes such intellectual isolationism promotes style, ego, awards. But not change. — Miguel Syjuco

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian. — Ama Ata Aidoo

Solution 2: Don't let your blinky light blink. By keeping it on steady mode, you'll use up the battery faster, but you'll be around to buy more. Don't be cheap and dead. — Grant Petersen

Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours! — Algis Budrys

The beautiful statue of Ganymede and the eagle looked like they had been molded out of white ceramic, and in Ganymede's outstretched arms it seemed to me a whole world was being embraced, a rushing world of gray sky and gray water where everything passed by so fast that you cnever got the chance to hold it, to touch it, to make it yours. Can't we keep anything? — Kim Stanley Robinson

The dawn of space travel is the dawn of woman. — Samuel R. Delany

Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else. — Idris Elba

cumin baked chicken WITH SWEET HONEY-LIME SAUCE — Sunny Anderson

The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have no other sanction than the obligations of good faith; and which oppose general considerations of peace and justice to the impulse of any immediate interest and passion. — Alexander Hamilton

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption. — Samuel Johnson

I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do. — Wayne Rooney

Tell the children to do all their business before they come over. I do not change diapers. — Sophie Oak

I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset when you're young. If I was starting in comedy today and if it didn't work the first time, I'd probably quit. But I kept at it, kept at it. — Steve Martin

If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world. — Saib Tabrizi

The Macintosh lacked a fan, another example of Jobs's dogmatic stubbornness. Fans, he felt, detracted from the calm of a computer. This caused many component failures and earned the Macintosh the nickname "the beige toaster," which did not enhance its popularity. — Walter Isaacson

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way. — Donna Tartt