Quotes of: Victors Keyword

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

Nicholas Sparks

My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

Elizabeth Strout

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.

Kate Braverman

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

The Fun of It

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.

John McGahern

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.

Martin Cruz Smith

There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.

Todd Phillips

If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

Vic Snyder

Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.

Cathleen Schine

It’s the body and eyes that tell what a person is thinking or going to do.

Into That Forest

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers

We're victors, remember? We're the ones who can survive anything they throw at us

Mockingjay

Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a glimpse of a wedding, or the thought of a happy home.

Oscar Hammerstein II

There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

Oscar Hammerstein II

I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.

Malala Yousafzai

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

Malala Yousafzai

I raise my voice not so that i can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard

Malala Yousafzai

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

Malala Yousafzai

I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.

Eleanor Catton

If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

Marisha Pessl

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

Jeb Bush