Vanier Scholarship Quotes & Sayings

OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still. — Eric Burdon

And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you. — Tim Winton

A lot of the times once you've finished a scene, the best reaction is to say you don't really remember what happened. I don't really remember what I did or the choices I made. — Jessica Biel

When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you? — J. A. Jance

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. — Paul Fix

The columbine and iris bowed down to make way for bolder sprays of red valerian, and a mingled profusion of clustered Canterbury bells and sweet william, pale blues and pinks intertwined, danced at the feet of more stately spears of deep-purple foxglove and monkshood. — Susanna Kearsley

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago. — Richard Leakey

A lingering sense that something was very wrong with him. That sense is called shame. — Edward T. Welch

There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret. Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder. — Ransom Riggs

I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of something academic with the lights on and you're going to get a lecture. I'm looking to blow my audiences away by giving a fine, dramatic performance and reminding them of why they love stories. — T.C. Boyle