Quotes by American Authors - Page 2641

She doesnt want your dark embrace. She'll let you hold her for a short time but she won’t submit to that kind of weakness and she'll only let you get so close. In the past it was easier pushing you into the arms of another rather than face what was or what could be. She doesn't want to love; not now, so she'll close the door and toss the key.
Donna Lynn Hope
This is a story, told the way you say stories should be told: Somebody grew up, fell in love, and spent a winter with her lover in the country. This, of course, is the barest outline, and futile to discuss. It’s as pointless as throwing birdseed on the ground while snow still falls fast. Who expects small things to survive when even the largest get lost? People forget years and remember moments. Seconds and symbols are left to sum things up: the black shroud over the pool. Love, in its shortest form, becomes a word. What I remember about all that time is one winter. The snow. Even now, saying “snow,” my lips move so that they kiss air. No mention has been made of the snowplow that seemed always to be there, scraping snow off our narrow road — an artery cleared, though neither of us could have said where the heart was.
Ann Beattie
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Adlai E. Stevenson II
How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
Trina Paulus
With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
Richard Ford
He loves to eat - he puts mayonnaise on an aspirin.
Joan Rivers
The longer you blame the mirror, the longer you throw away the power to change what it is reflecting.
Steve Maraboli
While we can certainly be mistaken at times about what is real, there is indeed a reality to know. Mistakes actually prove the point. We would not know there were such things as hallucinations or illusions if we did not have reality with which to compare them.
Douglas Beaumont
Real men don’t need porn.
Drew Nellins Smith
And that is one of the worst things about this life. As a liar, a pretend person, you cannot really truly ever be someone's friend. My American life, it is lonely. Often, it is very, very lonely.
Jillian Cantor
Beware of finding what you're lookin
Richard Hamming
I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.
Amy Neftzger
Let them say what they wish behind your back. You need only be strong enough that they don't say it to your face.
Courtney Milan
literature coming from the cold corpse of a whore is the last thing to be served in bed.
Henry Miller
But they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?
Cassandra Clare
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
Grace Paley
Monique whirled around and ran to her husband. “Pray with me, pray with me. We are going to die this night, Alexander.” Raven shut the door and leaned against it. “Don’t panic on me, Monique. We have a chance if we can stall him.” Alexander glared at her, his arm protectively around his wife, his hand already swollen and sore looking. “Don’t listen to her, Monique. She almost strangled me and threw me against the wall with unbelievable strength. She is unclean.” Raven rolled her eyes in exasperation. “I’m beginning to wish I did have all that power you think I have. I’d find a way to keep you from talking.” “He is afraid for us.” Monique spoke in a conciliatory tone. “Can’t we take off his chains?” “He would try to attack Andre the moment he returned.” Raven made a face at Alexander, completely exasperated with him. “That would get him killed fas
Christine Feehan
But what [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that 'views' do not really count; that it matters not what you think, but how you think; and that politics are relatively unimportant, while principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.
Christopher Hitchens
Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move.
Ryan Lilly
Mom put dense cheddar bread into a bag for a man who said this was his wife's favorite - he'd driven all the way from New Jersey to buy it because today was their anniversary. Several women in the store jabbed their husbands on hearing this. I hung my head - Peter Terris wouldn't cross the street to buy me a Twinkie.
Joan Bauer
Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
Brent Weeks
Being a Christian is about living an inviting example.
Ricky Maye
The USA states that it can put a man on the moon. I have a hard time believing this, as it is quite clear that they cannot build a simple electrical system that does not make people sick in large numbers!
Steven Magee
I’ve come to accept the voices in my head… I just wish they didn’t spit when they talk.
Gibson Michaels
The grass is full of ghosts tonight.' 'The whole campus is alive with them.' They paused by Little and watched the moon rise, to make silver of the slate roof of Dodd and blue the rustling trees. 'You know,' whispered Tom, 'what we feel now is the sense of all the gorgeous youth that has rioted through here in two hundred years.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hatred was easy. The permutations constant over the years: A stranger at a fair who palmed my crotch through my shorts. A man on the sidewalk who lunged at me, then laughed when I flinched. The night an older man took me to a fancy restaurant when I wasn't even old enough to like oysters. Not yet twenty. The owner joined our table, and so did a famous filmmaker. The men fell into a heated discussion with no entry point for me: I fidgeted with my heavy cloth napkin, drank water. Staring at the wall. "Eat your vegetables," the filmmaker suddenly snapped at me. "You're a growing girl."The filmmaker wanted me to know what I already knew: I had no power. He saw my need and used it against me.
Emma Cline
It's the most essential thing of all just because it's not a matter of how you do it at all, but of whether you do it. Like being born, or cooking: how you do it is less important than whether you do it. You can find thousands of books on prayer that give you methods of praying, hundreds of "hows"; but they do you no good at all unless you actually pray. Otherwise it's like reading a cookbook instead of cooking. You can't eat a cookbook!
Peter Kreeft
Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
James F. Bell
It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories are...
Edith Hamilton
And suddenly he thought, I'm the abnormal one now. Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.
Richard Matheson
Feelings have more to do with the story you tell yourself than the facts.
Marilyn Suttle
THAT'S IT!" Terminus cried. "That's AGAINST THE RULES!"Polybotes frowned, obviously confused that he was being told off by a statue. "What are you?" he growled. "Shut up!"He pushed the statue over and turned back to Percy."Now I'm MAD!" Terminus shrieked. "I'm strangling you. Feel that? Those are my hands around your neck, you big bully. Get over here! I'm going to head-butt you so hard--
Rick Riordan
Now it’s when you build your association with the members, they are already there.
Holly Duckworth
If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Will Cuppy
There was nothing better than the feel of a book in your hand, listening to the crinkling sounds as you turned its pages and the smell of its crisp paper.
Astrid Yrigollen
I was born walking, born in the nowhere between galaxies.
Hannah Lillith Assadi
I wouldn't serve a God who wouldn't speak to me.George Foreman
Davis Miller
You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journeymakes its own map across your heart.
Sharon Shinn
Seriously, it's like watching mild porn, watching you two eye fuck each other every two seconds.
Jessica Sorensen
It is when we are completely fulfilled and want for nothing more that we are given everything.
Kate McGahan
...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.
Wendell Berry
Frankly I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
Joseph Heller
Ronan's bedroom door burst open. Hanging on the door frame, Ronan leaned out to peer past Gansey. He was doing that thing where he looked like both the dangerous Ronan he was now and the cheerier Ronan he had been when Gansey first met him."Hold on," Gansey told Adam. Then, to Ronan: "Why would he be?""No reason. Just no reason." Ronan slammed his door.Gansey asked Adam, "Sorry. You still have that suit for the party?"Adam's response was buried in the sound of the second-story door falling open. Noah slouched in. In a wounded tone, he said, "He threw me out the window!"Ronan's voice sang out from behind his closed door: "You're already dead!
Maggie Stiefvater
To live forever, die in the service of others.
Debasish Mridha
I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul.
E.A. Bucchianeri
Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.
Zeena Schreck
They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.
Tim Tharp
Oh Lord Most High, Creator of the Cosmos, Spinner of Galaxies, Soul of Electromagnetic Waves, Inhaler and Exhaler of Inconceivable Volumes of Vacuum, Spitter of Fire and Rock, Trifler with Millennia — what could we do for Thee that Thou couldst not do for Thyself one octillion times better? Nothing. What could we do or say that could possibly interest Thee? Nothing. Oh, Mankind, rejoice in the apathy of our Creator, for it makes us free and truthful and dignified at last. No longer can a fool point to a ridiculous accident of good luck and say, 'Somebody up there likes me.' And no longer can a tyrant say, 'God wants this or that to happen, and anyone who doesn't help this or that to happen is against God.' O Lord Most High, what a glorious weapon is Thy Apathy, for we have unsheathed it, have thrust and slashed mightily with it, and the claptrap that has so often enslaved us or driven us into the madhouse lies slain!" -The prayer of the Reverend C. Horner Redwine
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.
Donna Tartt
I wanted to be his dear, his darling.
Kiera Cass
Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.
Michael Graves
Jessie reached for 'Ten Bright Ideas to Light Up Your Sales'. It was on her bedside table, right next to 'Charlotte's Web'. Jessie's hand hovered. She looked longingly at Wilbur and Fern watching Charlotte hanging b a thread.But this was war, and she couldn't stop to read for fun.
Jacqueline Davies
I like terra firma - the more firma the less terra.
George S. Kaufman
Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.
Sol Stern
Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would every inebriate would if he could.
J. B. Gough
If you are not in some way living your life like a Dr. Suess rhyme, than you may in fact be living it wrong.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
Student food." His eyes went to the tomato on the sill. "Whatever's in the refrigerator over pasta.
Kim Harrison
If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?
Veronica Roth
Time management is reactive, whereas time strategy is proactive.
Amber Hurdle
My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
Kanye West