Convivium Dubuque Quotes & Sayings

They called it Operation Silence although it was very loud. — Malala Yousafzai

I've already loved you twice, — Suzanne Young

I prefer natural hardwood lump charcoal - the other stuff makes your food taste like Goodyear tires. — Jose Andres

We should exhibit no self doubt to our friends, ... Credibility is a strategic asset. — John McCain

Against Amerigo Vespucci no such charges of immorality, cruelty, and bigotry can be brought as against Columbus, and the sole accusation against him, of falsifying the date of his "first" voyage, has not been sustained by the evidence. — Frederick A. Ober

I may not give you as much love as you want, but I will give you as much as I have. — Debasish Mridha

As a live stand-up comedy performer, I have the benefit of choosing real entrance music. — John Hodgman

But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from the heights of splendor, we bounce back and hurry for the latitudes of home. — Annie Dillard

I revise my suicide plan to slow death by morphling. I will become a yellow-skinned bag of bones, with enormous eyes. I'm a couple of days into the plan, making good progress, when something unexpected happens. I begin to sing. At the window, in the shower, in my sleep. Hour after hour of ballads, love songs, mountain airs. All the songs my father taught me before he died, for certainly there has been very little music in my life since. What's amazing is how clearly I remember them. The tunes, the lyrics. My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. A voice that would make the mockingjays fall silent and then tumble over themselves to join in. Days pass, weeks. I watch the snows fall on the ledge outside my window. And in all that time, mine is the only voice I hear. What — Suzanne Collins