Quotes by American Authors - Page 2933

Not at all, I just don't understand how the Arch Alchemist became mortal all of a sudden.""Because he split his soul into seven pieces and hid them all over Justice City," Toby retorted."You turned our comic book into a Harry Potter rip-off?" I spluttered.
Robyn Schneider
To find the good life you must become yourself.
Dr. Bill Jackson
Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.
Peter F Drucker
Dream on it, think on it, ink on it, speak on it... then proceed to bring on it. Fulfillment is ordered to find you. Shine time!
T.F. Hodge
You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much.
James Patterson
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
Tennessee Williams
Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.
Jane Yolen
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment
Theodore H. White
The true purpose of illustrated journaling [is] to celebrate your life. No matter how small or mundane or redundant, each drawing and little essay you write to commemorate an event or an object or a place makes it all the more special.
Danny Gregory
Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space.
Prince Ea
I have been asked what I mean by “word of honor.” I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls—walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground—there is a possibility that in some way or another I might be able to escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No, never! I’d die first.
Karl G. Maeser
I know something is super creative, when I feel disappointed that I didn't come up with the idea!
Simón Silva
Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
Tara Brach
If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.
Charles Baxter
Show physical affection. Nothing says "I love you" like bearing the entirety of your spouse's weight.
Jesse Petersen
I roll my eyes. "Oh, the woe of being adored."Beta Sinta grins. "It's a hard life.
Amanda Bouchet
I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.
Tobias Wolff
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Alan W. Watts
Don't you go to the movies?""Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.
Charles Bukowski
Sometimes Edith came into the room and sat on the bed beside him and they talked. They talked of trivial things – of people they knew casually, of a new building going up on the campus, of an old one torn down; but what they said did not seem to matter. A new tranquility had come between them. It was a quietness that was like the beginning of love; and almost without thinking, Stoner knew why it had come. They had forgiven themselves for the harm they had done each other, and they were rapt in a regard of what their life together might have been.Almost without regret he looked at her now; in the soft light of late afternoon her face seemed young and unlined. If I had been stronger, he thought; if I had known more; if I could have understood. And finally, mercilessly, he thought: if I had loved her more. As if it were a long distance it had to go, his hand moved across the sheet that covered him and touched her hand. She did not move; and after a while he drifted into a kind of sleep.
John Williams
They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest part of a heartbeat, when all Catelyn saw was the moonlight on the point of their lance, as if a thousand willowisps were coming down the ridge, wreathed in silver. Then she blinked, and they were only men, rushing down to kill or die.
George R.R. Martin
Maybe we're on the wrong side of some metaphorical bridge where the grass is crusty and not grass at all, but sharp little spines of glass. I dunno, Moritz.But the one little speck of green that I get is your letters, so please never stop writing me.You got that?Never stop.Because you'll never meet me and it's the closest we can get.
Leah Thomas
There are some things you never say good-bye to
Elizabeth Berg
Never go down to the darkest room. Stay far away from the rotting coffin. If you want to live through the night, let the devil sleep.
John Verdon
I'll admit it I'm on acid: uric acid! It makes my gout hurt like hell, but the foods I eat are so damn well
Stanley Victor Paskavich
The people you need to help you make your dream come true are everywhere and within your reach.
Marcia Wieder
One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment that alters his/her trajectory, opens up his/her heart + mind.
George Saunders
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
Truman Capote
War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.
Anthony Doerr
His existence had always been comfortable, he had always held a clear picture of himself, his duties, and his place in a world. He saw that world as a place so full of turning gears he had no hope of comprehending how things fit together, so why even try?Now things were different, however. Now he wasn’t just looking out from inside of the clockwork. Instead, he was actually seeing the final motion of the escapement—the ticking hands of the clock itself.And it was a doomsday clock.Both his feline and human instincts told him to let it be. It was not his problem, or his place to interfere. If the living world was destined to fall, let it happen, let it pass into history once and for all. Who was he to try to save it?But on the other hand, if the living world were lost, then there would never again be great cats to furjack . . . and couldn’t it be that hearing the actual ticking of the clock gave one the responsibility to stop it?
Neal Shusterman
When the dust settles and we look back,will we be okay with what we see?" End Times Alaska by Craig Martelle
Craig Martelle
People who like their job will give it their best. Those who don't, show it by a poor performance.
Ellen J. Barrier
God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his.
John Crowley
Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.
John Irving
What are the thorns really telling her? It's why she won't let us see them, why she clings to them--or they cling to her--as though she got herself buried in a bramble thicket and she can't get out and we can't get in to free her.
Patricia A. McKillip
Get out of your own way… stop the paralysis by analysis… dream your dream… then, WAKE UP and bring it to life!
Steve Maraboli
None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing.
Benjamin Franklin
You can’t have it both ways. Either I’m Irish and can talk, or I’m a man and I can’t.
Kathy Bryson
He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous.
Anne Lamott
I think... the most brilliant thing about being a writer is that if you don't like the way the world is, you can create your own.
Maegan Cook
I'm turning into an old man. I own four pairs of oxfords, my stories get a little long winded, and my neighbors play their music too loud.
Christy Hall
What is life if not laughter and love, caring and compassion, fresh bread and crisp radishes?
James Kavanaugh
Hope is the fuel within all human souls.Eliminate hope—nothing moves, nothing grows.
Richelle E. Goodrich
A person who can understand, appreciate, and sing along with a tree has a deeper perception on life.
Debasish Mridha
I postpone death by living by suffering by error by risking by giving by losing.
Anaïs Nin
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams
I love you like a fat kid loves cake!
Scott Adams
Pride is not looked at as a weakness, though it is the epitome of it. You might hear 'oh that poor alcoholic probably had an awful upbringing' but you never hear any sympathy for a prideful person, 'poor thing is probably horribly insecure, maybe we should validate him as a person to help him out.' That's what you should hear, but you won’t. What I will say though, is that the key to curing pride is not so much in loving others more, but actually in loving yourself more. Loving your neighbor as yourself does no good if you don’t love yourself.
Michael Brent Jones
A dream you don’t have to fight for isn’t a dream—it’s a nap. One changes your afternoon. The other changes your world. Keep fighting.
Jon Acuff
Honestly, I don't even like my type of girl that much, let alone other types. Not that I'm asexual or something - I just find Romance Drama unbearable.
John Green
[It's Not About You, Mr. Santa Claus,] is a fun read and a twist on Christmas, because it does involve Santa Claus and Jesus, and it doesn’t say that Santa Claus is bad, but it’s the child explaining to Santa Claus the true reason for the season is Jesus.
Soraya Diase Coffelt
Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close their eyes, raise their eyebrows into accent marks, and make sounds of acute appreciation. It's fairly sexy. Of course I don't know how these men behave at home, if they help with the cooking or are vain and boorish and mistreat their wives. I realized Mediterranean cultures have their issues. Fine, don't burst my bubble. I didn’t want to marry these guys, I just wanted to watch. (p. 247)
Barbara Kingsolver
There is her heart. I've never seen one beating.I had no idea they moved so much. You put your hand on your heart and you picture something pulsing slightly but basically still, like a hand on a desktop tapping Morse code. This things is going wild in there. It's a mixing-machine part, a stoat squirming in its burrow, an alien life form that's just won a Pontiac on The Price Is Right. If you were looking for the home of the human body's animating spirit, I could imagine believing it to be here, for the simple reason that it is the human body's most animated organ.
Mary Roach
It's time we woke up, women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools- but who´s to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and, what's more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes -and shoes- which of us wants to dance with her? Yes, we blame them for gratifying us, but are we willing to let our wives work? We are not. It hurts our pride, that's all. We are always criticizing them for doing mercenary marriages, but what do we call a girl who marries a chump with no money? Just a poor fool, that's all. And they know it. As for Mother Eve- I wasn't there and I can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the loin's share of keeping it going ever since- how about that?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Fiction described reality better than non-fiction.
Tommy Wallach
Everything is connected to everything else, and nothing is without consequence
David Huddle
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.
Ray Cummings
Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.
Charles Sanders Peirce
I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.
Martha Stewart
She leaned into me, and I could feel her hot breath against my ear. 'I want you to eat me,' she whispered. 'I want you to eat me like you’re an angry Alaskan grizzly and I’m Timothy Treadwell.
Phillip Andrew Bennett Low