Transliterations Quotes & Sayings

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

You are your own best teacher. My advice is to question all things. Seek for answers, and when you find what seems to be an answer, question that, too. — Louis L'Amour

This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases. — Dan Brown

There are few things in life harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate. — Barack Obama

Hope is just another phase you'll grow out of. Who — Chuck Palahniuk

He then explained his new philosophy, which followed the devastating discovery that Love and Friendship were the veriest illusions. He explained that people married because their sexual appetite had to be satisfied and there must be somebody to manage the house. There was nothing deeper than that in any man and woman relationship. — R.K. Narayan

The richest people in the world build networks; everyone else is trained to look for work. — Robert Kiyosaki

Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. — Jon Krakauer

I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people.
Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us.
I had no such conviction. I was not a wholly civilized person. — Charlaine Harris

Notes on Names, Transliterations and Titles This book inevitably contains a challenging diversity of names, languages and questions of transliteration. It is for general readers, so my policy is to use the most accessible and familiar names. I apologize to purists who are offended by these decisions. — Simon Sebag Montefiore