Quotes by American Authors - Page 2506

The secret to success: Don’t stop to admire yourself too often. I only stopped to admire my work after I wrote eight books, before that, I never once admired myself for accomplishing anything in my profession. Don't stop to admire yourself too much, instead, admire people who have achieved more than you have, because that gives you something to keep on looking forward to. But when the time comes that you should take a look at the greatness you have done, make sure you take a really long and hard good look at it! Make sure you know your own greatness.
C. JoyBell C.
Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.
Gabrielle Zevin
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.
Ernest Hemingway
I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.
Joss Whedon
Reminiscent of a diamond, she is gifted, privileged, and positioned to glisten.
Delano Johnson
It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.
E B White
Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason
Paul Tillich
And then I realized you were not rebellious but courageous. You know what that means? It means being scared but doing it anyway.
Marilyn Hilton
What can be achieved with suffering can be achieved without it.
Marty Rubin
Glaring at the Gasman, ter Borcht said, “Your time is coming to an end, youpathetic failure of an experiment. Vhat you say now is how you vill beremembered.”Gazzy’s blue eyes flashed. “Then you can remember me telling you to kissmy-”“Enough!” ter Borcht said.
James Patterson
He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.
George R.R. Martin
If God needs to condemn anything to hell, it ought to be the idea of social death. Every day we commit an act of revolution, an act of treason, against a system that was never meant to guarantee our survival.
Kiese Laymon
Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.
Jim Butcher
I’m not beautiful. My mother—”“I know. Your mother was a knockout, and you’re paper bag ugly... Sorry to upset all those cherished illusions of yours, but I don’t see it your way.”“That’s because you didn’t know her.”“Could your mother have led tiger back into its cage?”“Maybe not that, but she was very good with men. They’d do anything for her.”“This man will do anything for you.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Hyacinth. Please forgive me.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
I could entice you with words,” he said. “Someday, I want to touch you only with my voice and tease you only with my words. I want to watch as you quiver with longing, as your body goes soft and slick. I want to watch the fire build inside you, and I want to make you explode before I even brush a finger over your skin.
J. Kenner
Do you know the amount of evil done by well-meaning humans? Oodles. Do you know the amount done by ill-meaning devils? Infinitesimal.
Thomm Quackenbush
Every time Nyx thought she’d gotten out of the business of killing boys, she shot another one.
Kameron Hurley
It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.
Helen Prejean
If you crack a joke right now I swear I will knee you in the junk.
Laura Kaye
...American book jackets reflect the spirit of country - little homogeneity, lots of diversity.
Jhumpa Lahiri
There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary mistakes inthe cosmos- evolutionary curiosities that rise like mayflies, swarm for a day, and are gone. We are players who are here to stay, and the universe was built with us in mind. We reflect it, with our deepest loves and loftiest aspirations, just as it reflects us.
Eben Alexander M.D.
Create a character with an obsession, then follow.
Ray Bradbury
I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
Tom Clancy
I'd long thought that a surfeit of sensitivity could be a killing thing, too much insight malignant in its own right. The best survivors--there are studies that show it--are those blessed with an inordinate ability to deny. And keep on marching.
Jonathan Kellerman
The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. The creatures of Night World are beautiful and deadly and irresitable to humans. Your best friend could be one-so could your crush.
L.J. Smith
I Want to ShoutLeave me alone!What's wrong with you?Don't you remember who I am? Who you are?This is not a father's love! I want to scream, Can't you see what you are doing to me? What you've done to me? What you've made of me? I want to cry out, I am your little girl. I am not your girlfriend. I am not your whore. I am not my fucking mother! But he is on top of me and my shout is silenced. He is inside of me and my scream stays there too. He is finished. And I don't cry out, but I do cry a bucket of silent tears. He slithers away and at last, I quietly sob
Ellen Hopkins
The true order is what the wind creates by scattering the leaves.
Marty Rubin
Dear girl, it will be a very long road if you spend more time looking backwards than forward.
Soman Chainani
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard
A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time.
Sharon Robinson
I have survived, but I have not been spared.
Catherynne M. Valente
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
Ronald Reagan
Her eyes burn like a match head striking my flesh with ferocity and precision to ignite the night with a divinorum induced dream.
A.P. Sweet
Sometimes, we are so focused on what we want that we are blind to the things that make us happy. It’s just incredible, and when I focus on what is right in front of me, nothing else matters. All my worries vanish.
Paige Dearth
As a general rule, I am opposed to tax dollars being used for – well, damn near anything, barring mail delivery, law enforcement, and heavy artillery.
Markham Shaw Pyle
Learn by reading, listening, observing, imitating, and emulating.
Debasish Mridha
All my life I have overheard, all my life I have listened to what people will let slip when they think you are part of their we. A we is so powerful. It is the most corrupt and formidable institution on earth. Its hands are full of the crispest and most persuasive currency. Its mouth is full of received, repeating language. The we closes its ranks to protect the space inside it, where the air is different. It does not protect people. It protects its own shape.
Patricia Lockwood
Being alone will show you who you really are, and if you cannot get-on positively as the sole master of your space in that room alone, then you can absolutely forget about it after you add another person.
Bryant McGill
Lore: Making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS!
Wil Wheaton
It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.
Dorothy Dix
Lonely’s a different kind of pain, it doesn’t hurt as bad as heartbreak. I preferred it and embraced it ‘cause I reckoned it was one or the other.
Kristen Ashley
Family does not mean people with the same last name or the same DNA. It means people who care about you, who you trust, who you care about--people you can count on.
Kris Radish
Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water, the leafy patterns of the shadows across the path. And then myself, walking with the alignment that only comes after miles, the loose diagonal rhythm of arms swinging in synchronization with legs in a body that felt long and stretched out, almost as sinuous as a snake…when you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.
Rebecca Solnit
Loose and forbear!
Mark Twain
In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple conversation, for human contact, for love. I was an anoretic because I was afraid of being human. Implicit in human contact is the exposure of the self, the interaction of the selves. The self I'd had, once upon a time, was too much. Now there was no self at all. I was a blank.
Marya Hornbacher
I'm starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Pleasure is the Root of All Good
Susan Block
A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper.
Boris Fishman
Don’t worry, hero. If the vamp shows up, I’m here to protect you.”“Great, I can hide behind your massive ego.
Cassandra Clare
Society does not create nor define my beauty. I do.
Alicia Emamdee
She stood before him fully clothed yet gloriously naked. He saw the universe through her and began to give praise!
Sanjo Jendayi
And you are going to be to the light of our kingdom. No one is going to hurt you.
Alyson Serena Stone
Yes, some mistakes leave their mark, like the infidelity stains in the backseat. But in time they do fade.
Crystal Woods
Look at the world around you and focus on the possibilities not the problem.
Debasish Mridha
A relationship between two people is made up, for the most part, of invisible things: memories, shared experiences, hopes and fears. When one person disappears, the other is left alone, as if holding a string with no kite. Memories can do a lot to sustain you, but the invisible stuff of the relationship is lost, even as unresolved issues remain: arguments never settled, kind words never uttered, things left un-said. They become like a splinter beneath the skin-unseen, but painful nevertheless. Until they're exposed, coping with the loss is impossible.
David Dosa
Life is better when I get lost in natural beauty.
Debasish Mridha
Businesses need the well-defined set of guidelines and rules for managing innovation risks in a structural way.
Pearl Zhu
They say if you're a better person today than you were yesterday you're well on the road to perfection. So I figure if I'm a real snot today, tomorrow I should make huge progress.
Richelle E. Goodrich