Varant Melkonian Quotes & Sayings

The rumor is Chu Hing really wanted the 'Green Turtle' to be Chinese American, but the publisher didn't think that would sell. If you read those books, the hero almost always has his back facing the camera so you can't see his face. When he turns around, his face is obscured. — Gene Luen Yang

Veal, by definition, is the product of a sick, anemic, deliberately malnourished calf, a newborn dragged away from his mother in the first hours of life. Veal calves are dealt the harshest of punishments for the least essential of meats. — Matthew Scully

If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bonds, society perishes. — Thomas Henry Huxley

I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form. — Cameron Mackintosh

Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be. — Samuel Beckett

What could be better on the nearly empty return voyage than a weighty cargo, no matter how drunk and unsavory, a cargo that could load and unload itself and was actually willing to pay to serve as ballast? So unsavory were Borderer habits that upon arrival in America even fellow Calvinists, the New England Puritans, would not accept them. — Joe Bageant

I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals. — Robert Paul Weston

I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam. — Carl Sagan

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true. — Judy Blume