Huguenin Medal Quotes & Sayings

You have to be savvy to be a celebrity. You have to create a personality and shove that out. It just seems fatuous to me. Professionally, it's a good idea. But I can't do it. — Rupert Graves

You don't take away my freedom without asking first. — James Dashner

I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND OBSCURE, THE IMPRACTICAL AND LOCAL AND SMALL. — Rebecca Solnit

Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I've begun to fear more that that is letting the moment pass without saying anything.
I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back, regretting the moments we didn't speak up. When we didn't say "I love you." When we should've said "I'm Sorry." When we didn't stand up for ourselves or some one who needed help. — Taylor Swift

I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability ... — Stephane Dion

They say the mad live in a world of dreams, or nightmares. I just need to find the way out. — Mark Kirkbride

Alright, the next pretty bird that walks through that door is up for grabs. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

I have two friends — Me

Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well. — Paolo Bacigalupi

What can you mean? It may be of no moment to you; you have sisters and don't care for a cousin; but I had nobody; and now three relations, - or two, if you don't choose to be counted, - are born into my world full-grown. I say again, I am glad! — Charlotte Bronte

Ducking for apples
change one letter and it's the story of my life. — Dorothy Parker

Polo: "You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours."
Khan: "Or the question it asks you, forcing you to answer, like Thebes through the mouth of the Sphinx. — Italo Calvino

I don't go to the movies because I don't like films. — Donna Leon