Medallists Medallists Quotes & Sayings

Everything starts with a lie and ends with an apology. — Zoran Drvenkar

Because we can't tell others about our accomplishments if we don't know them ourselves. — Beverly Jenkins

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. — Chuck Palahniuk

At our age, loneliness can seem so permanent. — Jonathan Tropper

Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music. — Lisa Marie Presley

The unfed mind devours itself. — Gore Vidal

I do think the Cubans have to change some of the political structures there and allow critical voices, for their own sakes, because unless there is accountability the revolution will totally atrophy. — Tariq Ali

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support. — Tobias Smollett

Peter had even named it once, when he said that he could always see what other people hated most about themselves, and bully them, while Val could always see what other people liked best about themselves, and flatter them. — Orson Scott Card

Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn. — Kate Bernheimer

If it were not for hope the heart would break. — Jane Austen

How did you know about the pool?" I asked my mother. "Colt told Morrie, Morrie told Jack, Jack told me," Mom answered. Next time I ran away from home, I was going to a big city. The biggest. In China. Where not only were there billions of people, I didn't speak their language and they had good food. — Kristen Ashley

Everyone who believes in psychokinesis raise my hand. — Steven Wright

But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she starts a charity called The Anna Foundation for People with cancer Who Want to Cure Cholera. — John Green

I thought of Shakespearean chiasmus. A chiasmus in language is a crisscross structure. A doubling back sentence. A doubling of meaning. My favorite is "love's fire heats water, water cools not love." As a motif, a chiasmus is a world within a world where transformation is possible. In the green world events and actions lose their origins. Like in dreams. Time loses itself. The impossible happens as if it were ordinary. First meanings are undone and remade by second meanings. — Lidia Yuknavitch