Welcoming The Unwelcome Quotes & Sayings

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc. — Juan Goytisolo

In Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride Frank X Walker helps restore to public memory one of history's greatest jockeys. Isaac Murphy's story has universal significance but it is very much a Kentucky story, of which all Kentuckians should be proud. — Gurney Norman

A tinge of panic tingled his cerebral cortex as he recalled the last greeting he had had in this country, which was not so welcoming. — Kenneth Eade

My friends call me Wrath," says Raffe. "My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What's your name, soldier boy? — Susan Ee

What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars. — David Mitchell

'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture. — Michael Moore

What does the future look like? ... Jude said it looked like an open road just after a rainstorm. — Alexandra Bracken

There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth might end on December 21, 2012. It's a profound absence of awareness of the laws of physics and how nature works. So they're missing some science classes in their training in high school or in college that would empower them to understand and to judge when someone else is basically just full of it. Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson