Cornelsen Prima Quotes & Sayings

If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space. — Zadie Smith

I make up a lie, and it is a good one. Vague and boring. He only wants to talk about himself now anyway. After all, this is what Cassius was bred for. There are roughly fifteen kids who have that same quiet gleam in their eye. Not evil. Just excited. And those are the ones to watch, because they're the born killers.
Looking around, it's easy to see that Roque was right. There weren't many tough fights. This was forced natural selection. Bottom of the heap getting slaughtered by the top. Hardly anyone is severely injured except a couple of small lowDrafts. Natural selection sometimes has its surprises. — Pierce Brown

[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize. — Bernice Rubens

Percy can pass seventh grade. Waffles can be blue. Little miracles like that. — Rick Riordan

Each person has the potential to be good and productive, yet I also know that many people never begin to tap their true potential. It is human nature to surrender to the lowest common denominator. We must purposely strive to move ahead and achieve. — John Patrick Hickey

Some things, like love, might be worth hoping for. That it was okay to long for it, even in the face of the impossible. — Susan May Warren

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change — Lauryn Hill

In the dark of the trees he could smell splintered wood and see white upturned faces like wide white dirty flowers. — Michael Shaara

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in. — Muhammad Yunus

I don't want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I might want to kill. — George Bernard Shaw

I think to be a good veterinarian, you have to like people. — Kevin Fitzgerald

Life is too short because we die. — Christopher Locke

We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency. — Mo Ibrahim

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff. — William McFee

You have to excuse me because I AM a teenager, so I'm allowed to sound illiterate and make stupid comments like 'I'm not into hard-core feminism.' — Christina Ricci