Quotes by American Authors - Page 2826

My mother supported my every artistic ambition. I don't wonder why. I'm beyond grateful. But when I think of my grandparents barely surviving the war, I feel so pampered. What an indulgence to be an artist. So this is it, this is all I can offer, to the living and to the dead.
Leela Corman
It was so quiet, I could hear my own breathing, loud in my ears. Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.
Sarah Dessen
We had these sudden revelations that employment, the daily nine-to-five, was driving us far from our better selves.
Joshua Ferris
I wish for a life with love and never ending dream.
Debasish Mridha
On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I find a magazine and I lean back to start reading it, I can see the women watching me out of the corner of her eye. She moves closer to the child and she leans over and kisses his forehead. I know why she does it and i don't blame her.
James Frey
With heightened focus on the construction of woman as a "victim" of gender equality deserving reparations (whether through changes in discriminatory laws or affirmative action policies) the idea that owmen need to first confront their internalized sexism as part of becoming feminist lost currency. Females of all ages acted as though concern for or rage at male domination or gneder equality was all that was needed to make one a "feminist." Without confronting internalized sexism women who picked up the feminist banner often betrayed the cause in their interactions with other women.
Bell Hooks
I felt so happy I could barely stay in my skin
Frank McCourt
Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.
Mandy Hale
Oliver knocked on the door, trying to keep his fear in check. Dominic didn't answer. Oliver looked around the porch for a hidden key, frantically searching under the welcome mat, but to no avail.
Yawatta Hosby
I have to believe it’s right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a friend.
Betsy Cornwell
You never knelt to get anywhere. You are where you are because you're fucking capable, and willing to risk everything to do right, and I'll never be half what you are even if I tried my whole life, and I was walking around thinking I was better than you, even half dead and no use to anyone, because my family is old, because I was born better.
Ann Leckie
It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.
Rainbow Rowell
I don't understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to find the one you recognize. The one who gives you four arms, four legs, four eyes, and has the other half of your heart. There's only one of those, so what are all the other things for? Like dating?
C. JoyBell C.
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.
Lena Dunham
To be a man, a boy must see a man.
J.R. Moehringer
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
Sharon Salzberg
Yeah. I left something here that I love.
Abbi Glines
Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist makingdevastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious orpompous.
David Foster Wallace
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
Anthony Robbins
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing...
Redd Foxx
Wherever you are, be there with love. Be there with compassion, kindness, and gratitude. Smile and show you care.
Debasish Mridha
Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors...Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat...What then was music created for?Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves?I think I know.
Emilie Autumn
..for Africa was in a way none of them could explain linked up with heaven and they thought of the two places with the same reverence and ultimate longing.
Elizabeth Yates
The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.
Catherynne M. Valente
Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.
Richard Matturro
A God who punishes disobedience will teach us to obey and endure when it would be holy to protest and righteous to refuse to cooperate.
Rebecca Ann Parker
I write every day whether somebody pays me or not. I write every day whether or not self-doubt is kicking my ass. It's what writers must do.
Don Roff
He paid me to discover ways to express the unnameable; to get to the bottom of an utterance; to find words for the things for which there were no words yet, thereby bringing them into existence, committing them to paper, projecting them into the future. The work was part drudgery, part deity.
Ellen Miller
THERE'S NO REASON TO SLEEPCURLED UP AND BENT.IT'S NOT COMFORTABLE,IT'S NOT GOOD FOR YOU, AND ITDOESN'T PROTECT YOU FROM DANGER.IF YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT AN ATTACKYOU SHOULD STAY AWAKEOR SLEEP LIGHTLY WITHLIMBS UNFURLED FOR ACTION.
Jenny Holzer
Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
Rebecca Solnit
Perfect should never be a goal. Perfect just happens if you let it.
Wendy Wunder
It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.
Roger Zelazny
I knew that kind of thinking was paranoid, but after the wacky crap that had happened to me over the last couple of months, these days I’d be suspicious of a jolly white-bearded man in a red suit carrying a bag over his shoulder.(Violet Parker)
Ann Charles
Not only is love blind, it’s a little hard of hearing.
Brian P. Cleary
The concept of “work-life balance” is a fleeting idea for a Bombshell. Instead, a focus on work-life success—where her time and energy shifts based on the rotating demands of each area of her life—is far more realistic.
Amber Hurdle
He grinned. "Some guys like to work on cars or do woodworking. I search for beautiful women who might want to bite me.
Paige Tyler
Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself in the river, and I don't want his ghost visiting to keep telling me he's sorry.
Amy Tan
Hate isn’t the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesn’t free you from feeling anything. You have to carry it around, using every scar, every little memory like a building block. Like a stone in a wall, until you’ve created a new person, a new life that you can live with.
Rasmenia Massoud
Night would settle in like slow blindness, sucking the color from the trees and the low sky and the rocks and the frozen grass and the frost white hydrangeas until there was nothing left in the window but her own reflection.
Anita Shreve
Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.
Ann Brashares
...uncorny, human sized drama
Ira Glass
You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.
Bernard M. Baruch
She'd read ton of books with female heroines who swooned at the sight of their true love and had thought them to be incredibly wimpy. Now here she stood, barely able to keep herself upright. Not that she was in love...far from it. But a girl could appreciate a bona fide hottie when she saw one, right?
Abigail Owen
We all love each other, Ange," I said impatiently, hating this whole conversation. "No, not like this," she went on relentlessly. "Fang loves you."......My mouth dropped open. How does she know this stuff? "Forget it! No one's getting married!" I hissed. "Not in New Hampshire or anywhere else! Not in a box, not with a fox! Now go to sleep, before I kill you! Oh yeah, like I got any sleep after that. - pg 35
James Patterson
A muscle becomes weak if it is not used. To become strong, a muscle must push against something.
Billy Graham
We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us.
Sherry Turkle
To understand women who look both ways requires hearing their stories, not just noting the sex of their current partner. And when you listen closely, it's apparent these women have learned something crucial in these relationships.
Jennifer Baumgardner
Sweet is highly overrated." So is responsible, loyal, and every other adjective you'd find scrawled in my yearbook.
Jeanne Ryan
The door is crackedWe used to meetlike water does landnonot thatmore like when skin touches skinkissing fingertipsor when air escapes a lung and is felt across the worldI've leapt over cracks in sidewalksand swallowed away troublesome back painsthat could only be fixed with someone else's pillsWe met by your house one stray dayand you drove me to the baywhere we sat and kissed like it was yesterdayAnd here you told me that you loved meand that you always loved meand that you would always love methe wind blew and I held youYou rested your head on my shoulderand the wind blew warmLater, in your big red truck, we smoked some greenand I kissed you harderand held your breasts, and felt between your legsand with a gaspyou told me you were in love with meAnd then you drove me backand we promised it wouldn't be the endnot this timeThe quill and inkwell on your footI'm a writer and you are my greatest artI returned to my hell and dreamt of you once more
Dave Matthes
D/s can be dangerous, because it explores the most primitive sides of ourselves. Those involved must have a high degree of trust and very, very healthy devotion to one another. Like religion, it can be a spiritually enlightening experience, or it an expression of psychosis. And somewhere in between, it can be tremendously fun.
Joey W. Hill
It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
Marilyn Monroe
Your voice has haunted every inch of my soul since the last time I heard it…my world had been so dark, void of sound and then I heard you sing again—and it exploded. Everything came crashing down on me that I’d been holding in, and then I was just a mess. But I wasn’t suffering in silence anymore. I was suffering from the impenetrable sound of your voice on repeat in my head.
Cassandra Giovanni
Television is not the truth. Television is a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus a carnival a travelling troupe of acrobats storytellers dancers singers jugglers sideshow freaks lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.
Paddy Chayefsky
I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I’ll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.
Courtney Milan
This moment has nothing to do with the last one unless you choose the past to continue.
Alan Cohen
It had to do with the way women throughout time has known the feel of love when it came to them.
Peg Sutherland
If there is a God who made us and we did wrong before His eyes—as George says—at least we did wrong only because we were as God made us, and I do not think that He should set traps. Oh, you should know better than George! Let us not bring all that back into the world again—the angry God, the mean God—the one who does not tell us the rules of the game, and then strikes us when we break them. Let us not bring Him back.
George R. Stewart
I was still learning when I taught my last class.
Claude Moore Fuess
A kind word will never replace the conversation that God has prompted you to repeatedly have.
Shannon L. Alder