Quotes by American Authors - Page 1416

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
Elia Kazan
I really don't deserve this but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
Jack Benny
Love people. Use things. The opposite never works.
The Minimalists
Tell Khan Drogo that he has given me the wind.
George R.R. Martin
Limp finally spoke. “Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?
Cole Alpaugh
Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
When did you star here?” I ask her.“Three days ago. Sir. Aspirant. Um—” She wrings her hands.“Veturius is fine.”She walks carefully, gingerly—the Commandant must have whipped her recently. And yet she doesn't hunch or shuffle like the others slaves. The straight-backed grace with which she moves tells her story better than words. She'd been a freewoman before this—I'd bet my scims on it. And she has no idea how pretty she is—or what kind of problems her beauty will cause for her at a place like Blackcliff. The wind pulls at her hair again, and I catch her scent—like fruit and sugar. “Can I give you some advi
Sabaa Tahir
Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife...To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.
Shamcher Bryn Beorse
The law provides expert diagnosis of our sin problem, which is absolutely essential. But the law does not provide the cure to our sin problem. Only Jesus can save us from our sin problem.
John Paul Warren
Though Isobel could recall only a few specifics regrading the appearance of Poe's wife-a handful of vague characteristics picked up during her study with Varen, retained from the one or two glimpses she'd had for her portraits- Scrimshaw, it seemed, had forgotten nothing.
Kelly Creagh
Instinct is all of our humanity being deliberately honest with all of life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I'm more than a few neurons shy of a synapse right now, and it feels absolutely fan-fucking-tastic.
Nenia Campbell
That was his favorite thing about books—they took you off to other people’s lives an’ places, but you could still set in your own chair by th’oil heater, warm as a mouse in a churn.
Jan Karon
It is generally believed that nearly 40 percent of your first impression will be set from the tone of your voice. Your vocal thermometer can be more impactful than the actual words you use.
Susan C.Young
I wish I knew how to quit you.
Annie Proulx
Solitude is an unmarked place beyond the borders of the map, a place where most fear to tread. It’s no surprise, then, that this is where the greatest secrets and most valuable treasures are hidden.
Cristen Rodgers
How are you going to get revenge against dead people? Dig ’em up and stake ’em through the heart?”“I asked myself that same question, and I think I know the answer. You destroy what they loved, and you love what they destroyed.
Tiffany Reisz
Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!
Jacob A. Riis
Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.
Tom Perrotta
Each moment in time we have it all even when we think we don't.
Melody Beattie
Time, energy and money. These should never be compromised.
Dee Dee Artner
All to often, suffering exists in a realm beyond vocabulary so we navigate that realm awkwardly, fumbling for the right words, hoping we can somehow approximate an understanding of matters that should never have to be understood by anyone in any place in the world.
Roxane Gay
A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.
Walt Disney Company
Lampaxa Vorheridine? My Latin was never very good. What does that Translate to?" "Um, nothing. It wasn't named by an Earth scientist. According to the database it was named by a Cheblookan aboard a frieghter when it stopped here looking for fresh food. His friend was killed by one as they searched the swamp for Greppers. After the hunting party killed the creature and determined that it was safe to eat if processed properly, the Cheblookan reportedly named it after his mother-in-law, Lampaxa Vorheridine. he said it sort of reminded him of her, even though they look nothing alike.
Thomas DePrima
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan
Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren’t really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That’s how I felt.
Tim Tharp
Whatever her dream was, it rested somewhere in the most vague of directions.
Elizabeth Craft
Nothing can stop a lie whose fashion has come...
Thomas Williams
There is much more to playing the clavier than playing written music. Do you realize with accompanying there is often nothing written out but the bass line--the left hand? There might be a few notations as to a suggested harmony, but it is up to me to fill in the music, at the proper volume, style, and harmony for the soloist--often instantly. I've heard it said that Bach questioned wether the soloist or the accompanist deserves the greatest glory.
Nancy Moser
Purpose creates a belief in a higher power, directing you toward your goal on the best path possible.
Lawren Leo
The image I'd had of myself as a child was someone I'd never be, and it was only recently that I realized it was okay to be who I was. - Cat
Jeaniene Frost
To be me is to be different...
Robert Fanney
School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.
Dave Kellett
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Helen Keller
Perfectionism is a delusion that can rob one of a very successful, enriching life if not careful.
April Bryan
I never liked telling war stories. Some men love to tell them. Hell, some men need to. They need to convince themselves that the war is over. But I'm not one of them.
Paul Allor
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.
Rachel Carson
Lover of love. I adore love letters, and professions of love, and true, heartfelt moments when two people know they’re meant for each other.
Lauren Blakely
You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.
Abigail Van Buren
Rewriting is the crucible where books are born.
Cathryn Louis
Rich dreams now which he was loathe to wake from. Things no longer known in the world. The cold drove him forth to mend the fire. Memory of her crossing the lawn toward the house in the early morning in a thin rose gown that clung to her breasts. He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
Cormac McCarthy
I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be... This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages...the delayed adolescent, the childish adult, but that they are in me to be drawn on; to forget is a form of suicide... Far too many people misunderstand what *putting away childish things* means, and think that forgetting what it is like to think and feel and touch and smell and taste and see and hear like a three-year-old or a thirteen-year-old or a twenty-three-year-old means being grownup. When I'm with these people I, like the kids, feel that if this is what it means to be a grown-up, then I don't ever want to be one. Instead of which, if I can retain a child's awareness and joy, and *be* fifty-one, then I will really learn what it means to be grownup.
Madeleine L'Engle
People like you don’t go mad, Vi. They’re quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long
April Genevieve Tucholke
If the choices you make are not quality, don't put them on the top shelf.
T.F. Hodge
The reason I could never be an atheist is because when they get together they have literally nothing to talk about.
R. Joseph Hoffmann
In the office, Michael sat behind our father’s desk, clicking away at the computer with his right hand, and making notes with his left. Ambidextrous freak.
Rachel Vincent
The fundamental problem here is the continued over-identification with doing. By attempting to “do” The Leap, the practitioner is attempting the impossible (as doing and being point to two different realms). Thus far your training has been largely if not entirely immersed in the relative domain. With Being, your training is stepping beyond this domain into the transcendent. Fundamentally, there is nothing you can “do” to “be.
Rob McNamara
And, indeed it is a very pleasant thing for to ride forth in the dawning of a Springtime day. For then the little birds do sing their sweetest song, all joining in one joyous medley, whereof one may scarce tell one note from another, so multitudinous is that pretty roundelay; then do the growing things of the earth smell the sweetest in the freshness of the early daytime—the fair flowers, the shrubs, and the blossoms upon the trees; then doth the dew bespangle all the sward as with an incredible multitude of jewels of various colors; then is all the world sweet and clean and new, as though it had been fresh created for him who came to roam abroad so early in the morning.
Howard Pyle
The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.
Thornton Wilder
When we are in a foreign country we live with a fervor rooting from knowing that our days there are numbered, yet if the number of days in lives is numbered, are we not to live our everyday lives with that same zeal?
Forrest Curran
I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor's opinion, but 'yourself.' I know, and you don't, what you really are deep down. Deep down, you are what a deer, your God, your poet, or your philosopher is. But you think you're a member of the VFW, your bowling club, or the Ku Klux Klan, and because you think so, you behave as you do. This too was told you long ago, by Heinrich Mann in Germany, by Upton Sinclair and John Dos Passos in the United States. But you recognized neither Mann nor Sinclair. You recognize only the heavyweight champion and Al Capone. If given your choice between a library and a fight, you'll undoubtedly go to the fight.
Wilhelm Reich
Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.
Lemony Snicket
The truth is I love you but you reject my love. You would rather be right than loved.
E'yen A. Gardner
The business’s potential depends on how it unleashes its information potential and talent potential.
Pearl Zhu
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue
Anne Lamott
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but the thankful heart... will find in every hour some heavenly blessings.
Henry Ward Beecher
They say everything that can be written has been written. I say we are just getting started.
Andrew Barger
I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.
Lauren Slater
It's not about becoming a movie star. It's about the down-in-the-dirt art of inhabiting the person you aspire to be while carrying on your shoulders the uncertain and hungry man you know you are.
Cheryl Strayed
unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home . . . lovers alone wear sunlight.
E.E. Cummings