Quotes by American Authors - Page 1791

I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
Brenda Ueland
Slowly, Dana walked around the long table and stared at them. The moment stretched. They sent her encouraging smiles. “Okay,” she announced, “I’m not gonna lie. This is freaking me out a little.
Dianne Duvall
Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.
Brandon Mull
Social media spark a revelation that we, the people, have a voice, and through the democratization of content and ideas we can once again unite around common passions, inspire movements, and ignite change.
Brian Solis
While God’s will is that every marriage will endure, man’s sin has poisoned many relationships.
Billy Graham
Be where you are, stop over-thinking, and focus on what you are doing.
Roy T. Bennett
Her breathing came faster, evidenced by the repeated rapid swell of her breasts against the low-cut bodice.tBefore he could let his thoughts circle around once more, he cupped the elegant line of her jaw in his palm.tHer eyes widened.t“Are you going to kiss me?” she whispered.tInstead of answering, he lowered his mouth to the luscious warmth of hers.
Madeline Martin
No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving worship and power to a false god? The prince? Or Banjiku?
Tamora Pierce
How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?
Rabih Alameddine
Death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.
Patricia Briggs
It is not enough to say that you are upset with something if you don't do anything to change it. If you want to know who a person truly is see what they do. Do they only talk or do they actually walk the walk! What do they get involved with? Making the world better or trying to divide us by pitting us against each other. Beware of the person that tries to divide and conquer
Johnny Corn
If you always do "just enough" you'll never have more than enough.
Rob Liano
All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I when we're together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?'He was quiet. He wanted everything she'd just said to be the last thing he heard. He wanted to fall asleep with 'I want you' in his ears. 'God,' she said. 'I told you I shouldn't talk. I didn't even answer your question.
Rainbow Rowell
Be careful how you treat those who you perceive to be below you. The universe has a way of favoring the underdog.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.", Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]
John Green
His smile was bright and sweet and hot enough to melt solid steel. "Is this the part where I kiss you?""If you like.""Oh," he said, "I like.
Rachel Caine
Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
Christopher McCandless
He said No to those Wild Things and so did I. Sometimes we said No and sometimes we shouted it and we were ferocious because it counted for everything.
Amie Ryan
At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an extraordinary woman, and a great feminist. It has to do with the people in my life. It has to do with a lot of different things, but -- I don't know! Because I'm not just writing from the female characters for other people. I have a desire to see them in our culture -- that was not met for most of my childhood. Except occasionally by James Cameron. [From the 2011 San Diego Comic Con, in response to being asked why he writes strong female characters.]
Joss Whedon
For the first time in history, middle-class women do not need men in the traditional ways - for safety, for money, for a life. So they’re demanding instead what they always wanted but couldn’t ask for: emotional connection, presence, intimacy. Sex with enough foreplay, enough seduction, enough closeness to please them. Men are baffled not only because the needs they are being asked to fill differ so from what their fathers and grandfathers understood to be their jobs but also because full-fledged intimacy requires strengths and skills they’ve never learned. Moreover… they’re strengths and skills that were once left solely to women: Men didn’t have to develop them. This maturational mismatch may be contributing to distrust among lovers of all ages.
Dalma Heyn
Her husband and her children did not consider her beyond criticism. She belonged to them; whatever she did affected them; their pride, their good name in the world lay in her hands. They would give her love, protection, even a sort of homage, but in return for that she must be what they wanted and needed her to be.
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
There are as many kinds of kisses as there are people on earth, as there are permutations and combinations of those people. No two people kiss alike—no two people fuck alike—but somehow the kiss is more personal, more individualized than the fuck.
Diane di Prima
There is wisdom out there that can’t be relayed in musings or sage advice. Like the complexity of life itself, it simply won’t condense. It can only be shown in its entirety. It takes a story.
Lance Conrad
Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.
Chris Bohjalian
Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men."--Charlie Gordan
Daniel Keyes
I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy.And what is the truth, Stark? It's all very simple. There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal.
Charles G. Finney
I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done
Rosamund Hodge
Never forget: Satan’s goal is to turn us away from God.
Billy Graham
[He] made me feel lonely, and being alone with another person is much worse than being alone all by yourself.
Lindy West
You're right that not everything we do has to have some kind of social agenda, but that doesn't mean it can only be anesthetizing crap.
Brian K. Vaughan
I wanted to take your hand into mine and kiss it.I never dared.
Julio Alexi Genao
I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.
Patrick Rothfuss
When I was lecturing recently to a group of cardiologists at the Mayo Clinic I said...Why is it that from the moment you enter medical school to the moment you retire, the only disorder that you will ever diagnose with a physics textbook is obesity? This is biology folks, it's endocrinology, it's physiology - physics has nothing to do with it. The laws of thermodynamics are always true, the energy balance equation is irrelevant. If someone's getting fatter I guarantee you they're taking more energy than they expend (as long as they're getting heavier). And if they're getting leaner I guarantee they're expending more than they're taking in. [It's] given, let's never discuss it again. And if you say it to your patients you're telling them nothing (University Of Colorado Medical School, May 9th 2013 - via YouTube)
Gary Taubes
Beware of relationships that substitute intensity for emotional intimacy.
Adelyn Birch
Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The seer does not see, by choice, what the blind can see by default... from within.
T.F. Hodge
Nim looked aghast. “Of course not. Do you think my future wife would be a servant? No—it’s Number Seven of the wives. Her name is Begonia.”“Oh, no, Nim,” Vesper said. “You can’t fall for one of the wives! She’s married. And to the king, no less. That’s illegal. Maybe it shouldn’t be, but you’ll still probably be arrested if anyone finds out—or worse.”“I knew you’d say that,” Nim said, turning away. “You’re such a prude, Vesper. Love is above things like rules. And the king has so many wives and mistresses—he doesn’t even remember all of them.
Colleen Chen
I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build up and control the affairs of a large education institution. I knew that if we failed it wold injure the whole race.
Booker T. Washington
Thoughts, words, emotions & deeds not coming from love are likely coming from fear.
Allan Lokos
But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.
Sylvia Plath
What you think again and again becomes your truth. Think right.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they’d like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance.A fissure forms in the vessel. I’m cracking open.
Libba Bray
Americans no longer experience vacations. They simply Sony them so they can ignore them for the rest of the year.
John Grisham
Act well your part,there all the honor lies.
Edgar Lee Masters
Often, your mentors are already in your life; you just haven’t yet found a way to learn from them.
Eric Greitens
Our souls need music, Robert, as our bodies need touch.
Gaelen Foley
He hadn’t come to see her. He’d arrived by mistake and wanted to get far away without further ado. Once upon a time, they’d shared a rare, special love. She remembered it and regretted losing it, even if he didn’t.
Sara Daniel
Achieving success is a challenge but so is struggling so you may as well choose success.
Rob Liano
Si, the speed limit sign said 35. Your Goin' 55." -Sadie Robertson"Oh, that's just a suggestion.
Si Robertson
Love without reason—bloom without season.
Debasish Mridha
Reason Develops Passion, Passion Creates Motivation, Motivation is the driving force behind all actions = GREAT RESULTS.
Ray Mancini
Life is a test. Without problems to solve, it wouldn’t be much of a test.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?”“That is the only time a man can be brave,
George R.R. Martin
I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary.
C. JoyBell C.
I allow my inner joy wellspring to be unbounded and free, to power me up, and to keep me radiantly healthy!
Amy Leigh Mercree
Being a mother was like being trapped in the first fifteen minutes of a horror film. Everything was fine, lovely. But there was this persistent sense of dread.
Laura Lippman
Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.
P.C. Cast
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
John Steinbeck
To know your life purpose is to connect with a higher power.
Shannon L. Alder
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
Ludwig von Mises