Hamman Foundation Quotes & Sayings

There's something with the physical size of America ... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. — Mark Haddon

I'll be waiting for you right here, inside my heart, always. - Chansey from Blood of Anteros — Georgia Cates

Sat in groups together purging ourselves, theoretically, of anger and self-hatred. We learned not to turn on ourselves. We learned to blame. — Gillian Flynn

Being mean about other people isn't on my radar. — Geri Halliwell

My daily routine is to make every day the best day. — David Wolfe

How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.' — Eleanor Mondale

Paul turned her to face him. I see a breathtaking woman scared to death to see how beautiful she actually is, a woman refusing to live because she has spent her entire life feeling inadequate in her appearance, a woman who has nothing to be ashamed of. — Abby Niles

Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess. — Thomas Hardy

I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged. — Camille Claudel

You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you can unlearn it. But some people choose not to unlearn it, because they're afraid they'll lose power if they share with other people. We are afraid of sharing power. That's what it's all about. — Jane Elliott

The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you. — James Patterson

... anyway it wasn't your reading that started this. It was the laugher, the carefree laughter, the three dimensional Coca Cola advertisement that you were, the try-anything-once friends, the imperviousness to all that came before you, the chain phone calls, the in-jokes, the instant success, the beach houses, the white lace underwear, the private dancing, the good-graced acceptance pf part-time shift work, the apparent absence of expectations, the ever-changing disposable cults of the rural, the family, the eastern, the modern, the postmodern, the impoverished, the sleekly deregulated, the orgasm, the feminine, the feminist, and then the way you canceled with the air of one making a salad — Elliot Perlman