Kermadec Island Quotes & Sayings

I sort of wanted to reveal this other side of Asia: Southeast Asia, where the Chinese have been wealthy for generations and have different ways of relating to money. I wanted to sort of reveal this world to readers. — Kevin Kwan

Thanks for ... what you remember. And what you don't. It's not nothing. It's a lot. — Ellyn Bache

Prose divides shame into stations. — Wayne Koestenbaum

For in a way that feels quite unfair, the only way I can gain any qualifications at this thing
sex
that is seen as so societally important and desirable, is by being a massive slag
which is *not* seen as societally important and desirable. This often makes me furious. — Caitlin Moran

You never know what's going on in someone's life. You never know what's really going on behind what they present. — Hill Harper

I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I mean, that's one of the things that interests me about memoir. It should be as much about how we remember, and that includes false memories, and the realization that one is having a false memory. That's the kind of an interesting way of layering the whole experience of recollection. — Marco Roth

The problem with Fate is that no matter how many times you call out to her, she has her own timing that's irrelevant to whatever anyone else happens to be doing — Amy Neftzger

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth. — June Jordan

Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people." — Vince Staples

Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action. Destruction awaits anyone who, answering to his vocation and fulfilling it, exerts himself within history; only the man who sacrifices every gift and talent escapes: released from his humanity, he may lodge himself in Being. ( ... ) One always perishes by the self one assumes: to bear a name is to claim an exact mode of collapse. — Emil Cioran

Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman. — Woody Allen

I think everybody in my generation, we wanted to be Elvis. — Chris Isaak

I came into the League at 18-years-old. I didn't have a lot of experience in training the right way. I probably came into the league at 175 pounds; now I'm 190 ... It's all about training the right way and training for my needs. — Steven Stamkos

Often in films, you have no idea where you're going to be six months from now. And I grew very weary of that. And television, although it wasn't necessarily as creatively diverse as filmmaking can be, it was the lifestyle choice that I needed to make. — Alec Baldwin