Hastalandin Quotes & Sayings

Once upon a time, it had sufficed to write 'The Sound and the Fury' or 'The Sun Also Rises.' But now bigness was essential. Thickness, length. — Jonathan Franzen

I will have to pay more attention to Russian weather forecasts in future, to check that Kiev, Warsaw, Riga and Vilnius are not included in their maps. — Andrey Kurkov

Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English. — Rebecca L. Walkowitz

A relationship will only go as far as you both want it to. — Subhasis Das

Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even just to be shielded by a story, to slip inside a story and stop being recognizable, controllable, subject to blackmail. — Fabrizio De Andre

I don't like to talk to people, because I can't express myself satisfactorily. I don't say the things I mean. — Greta Garbo

I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,. — George Lucas

Many athletes competing in Atlanta wouldn't be here if it weren't for corporate support. — Mary Lou Retton

Maybe we should all find one," I say. Or maybe, just for once, I should wait for someone to find me first. — Jason Heller

Not reforming the NHS would have been a much easier decision for me as secretary of state to have taken. We could have just protected the NHS from cuts, put in an extra £12.5bn and left it there. But sooner or later the cracks would have started to show. New treatments would have been held back. — Andrew Lansley

You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition. — Joel McHale