Ondaatje Poems Quotes & Sayings

My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds. — David Gross

Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are. — Joss Whedon

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character. — Lynne Truss

I don't want to be one of those players that is just a first, second or third down player. I want to be a four-down player, able to play in the ground and dirt with the linemen, but also able to play in space. — Justin Cole

I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime. — Henning Von Tresckow

Love has no hands, but can touch your heart, and no feet, but can move your soul. — Matshona Dhliwayo

She laughed and laughed and laughed until the vowels were rolling across the walls and floors, as if they meant to do away with the laws of time and space. — Fredrik Backman

UR-DIDACT: This being was not the Primordial I encountered on Charum Hakkor, but something else entirely - though it retained the Primordial's motives and thoughts and memories. It was a Gravemind - the Gravemind, more accurately. It was the Primordial's final act of revenge. — Greg Bear

I lost my confidence. — Pat Summitt

Sorry, I get a little excited when I talk about firearms. — Jeri Ryan

What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world. — Michael Ondaatje

How could I share the
way my heart was breaking
when my confessor
didn't believe — Ellen Hopkins