Uyir Nanban Quotes & Sayings

I think only a person who's studied WITH someone for many years is in a position to voice a true opinion about a particular teacher. — Frederick Lenz

I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting. — Edmund White

Really, Agatha, you might have told me."
"Told you what?" Mairelon said. "That my ward was once a street thief? I didn't think it was a secret."
"A street thief?" Letitia wrinkled her nose and looked at Kim with disfavor. "How horrid."
"I think it is the most romantic story I have ever heard", Miss Matthews said with conviction. — Patricia C. Wrede

Without democracy freedom is a chimera — Octavio Paz

Nontraditional students often have the misconception that aid is intended only for high school students entering college. Luckily, that's not the case. — Jean Chatzky

The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism. — Emma Goldman

There are certain authors out there whose books I'll read no matter what they're about. More often than not I don't even need to read the blurb to know that I'll love it. It's that kind of confidence in my work that I hope to earn from my readers someday. — Shawn Kirsten Maravel

The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man. — Irene Parlby

How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist? — Paul Hawken

We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences. — Arthur Seyss-Inquart

When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot. — Ruggero Leoncavallo

We can discover much about God by looking at nature. Take the Trinity for example. The Trinity is sort of like an apple. You've got the seeds, the flesh, and the skin. Three different things. Still, together they form one thing, an apple. And under no circumstances will one apple be three things, but the seeds, skin, and flesh will always be three things. — Alan De Jager

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof. — Ahmet Ertegun

Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life ... — Jimmy Carter