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“I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.”
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“Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.”
Source : Eliot Weinberger (2000). “Anonymous Sources: A Talk on Translators and Translation : Lecture”
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“Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.”
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“This last year... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner.”
Source : FaceBook post by Karen Kingsbury from Oct 06, 2014 
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“As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.”
Source : "Four Energetic Women Behind America's Literary Arts". Interview with Daniela Gioseffi, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.
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“She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.”
Source : Elizabeth George Speare (2011). “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.”
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“My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.”
