Winnipeggers Quotes & Sayings

When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say "Why?", say "Why not? — Billie Jean King

Did not pleasure depend on an architecture of perspective
on contrast and delay, withholding and loss? Did not true enjoyment rely in facing the future? — Gordon Dahlquist

People are strange, when you are a stranger ... Faces come out in the rain, When you're strange ... — Thomas Jefferson

I'd walked to school like it was any other day. Like my heart wasn't breaking. Like my head wasn't reeling and my feet weren't weighted down by the sudden and tragic onset of clinical depression, making each breath a trial, each step a struggle. I totally needed a car. — Darynda Jones

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye. — William Shakespeare

If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide. This thread is a billion times longer than its own width. Relatively speaking, it is as if your little finger stretched from Paris to Los Angeles. — Jeremy Narby

Guilt. That might have been the only purely human feeling Knox had left. — Alex London

In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind. — Craig Childs

I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever. — Thomas Haden Church

Even Winnipeggers who depart for Toronto, Calgary or Vancouver never assimilate or fully lose their regional identity. They remain stuck on their birthplace, in the middle of the flat, snowy, buggy, flood-prone and isolated prairie, where everyone seems to know everyone despite the impossibility of the arithmetic involved. — Bartley Kives