Quotes by American Authors - Page 3124

Nate came back into the kitchen, his hair slightly messy from having had the beanie on. The gray thermal Henley he wore gave him a rugged, all-man look that made her heart skip a couple beats. For someone who was the opposite of her type, he sure was hard not to look at. Add the quiet sense of humor she'd seen last night and delivering chocolate chips, and he'd tiptoed into perfect territory.
Cindi Madsen
It now appears most of us need about 5,000 units a day if we avoid the sun. The government was off by a factor of ten; an ,i>“order-of-magnitude error.”,/i> Mistakes of this scale are rare in medicine.
John Cannell
A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.
Richard Brookhiser
Hush baby,I got you. No more talking.
Christy Pastore
Happiness is not always the answer let the other emotions out is sometimes what is needed
Michael Burgess
I am never taking a trip with either of you ever again.' Eve said. 'Ever.'Excellent' Shane said. 'Then next trip, we hit the strip bar.'I have a gun, Shane,' Eve sighed.What, you think i actually loaded yours?'Eve flipped him off, and Claire laughed.
Rachel Caine
Isn’t the media supposed to keep government responsible?
Jameson Currier
This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me
Walt Whitman
Generally speaking, if you think something you want to do is wrong, it is.
Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis
Whenever governments wanted to achieve some end, often involving population growth, they restricted access to birth control and/or criminalized birth control unless, of course, the population growth concerned the poor, in which case, contraception was enthusiastically promoted. Historically, society has only wanted the "right kind of people" to have a right to life. We shouldn't forget that fact.
Roxane Gay
Through pictures, we cut reality in pieces. We selected only the choicest moments, discarding the rest as if they'd never happened.
Sarah Ockler
Live with kindness, integrity and spirituality. Comport yourself with grace under pressure.
Bryant McGill
Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday?” I roll my eyes. “I don’t know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback.” “I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party.” He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. “And I’m not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks.” “What’s an acid flashback?” Izzy crows. “Nothing,” my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me.
Lauren Oliver
We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries
Thomas Paine
To have the experience I did as a child, I would have to be a physically different being, one with whom I share nearly nothing. On a cellular level, aside from the neurons of my cerebral cortex and a few other stranglers in my heart and eyes, I am not him.
Thomm Quackenbush
September drank in the starry sky with a longing and a tugging and a sigh. All the way up, to that enormous crescent in the black.
Catherynne M. Valente
The anger welled inside me, with no where to go. I could feel it eating away at me. I knew if i didn't find a way to release it, it would destroy me.
Kami Garcia
Much self-condemnation, thus, is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza's remark, 'One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man'. In ancient Athens, when a politician was trying to get the votes of the working class by appearing very humble in a tattered coat with big holes in it, Socrates unmasked his hypocrisy by exclaiming, 'Your vanity shows forth from every whole in your coat'.
Rollo May
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
Don Marquis
Writing had never become routine for him, but remained a constant surprise. He was always surprised at how much fun it was, once it all got moving. And never failed to be surprised at how bloody hard it was. It was like having an intense, frustrating love affair with a capricious, gorgeous, and often mean-spirited woman.He loved every moment of it.
Nora Roberts
Self-confident people take the initiative to move forward in the direction of their dreams.
Susan C.Young
The revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin. We can't stop here. We must go on. We must take the risks.
Ursula K Le Guin
Oh, right. She doesn’t know your secret identity.” Andy unzipped his sweatshirt and tossed it on a chair. “So, Meg Ryan just sent Tom Hanks a book but…”t“No, Meg Ryan just sent NY152 a book, which was then overnighted to Tom Hanks, who lives above Meg Ryan and knows she’s Shopgirl, while she has no idea he’s NY152.”t“I’m a little disturbed you know that movie so well.”t“It was actually a remake of a 1937 play called Parfumerie by Miklós László.” Paul blew out a breath. “And it’s really not as fun as they made it sound.”t“But hey, at least you can say you’ve got mail,” Andy said, chuckling.
Mary Jane Hathaway
Now that you know the wishing ways, you'll feel the wishes around you. They'll make you itchy, 'cause you know you can do something about them, but that ain't always the best idea.
Sarah Zettel
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no better point of entry to the religious experience than the Sabbath, for all its apparent ordinariness. Because of its ordinariness. The extraordinariness of the Sabbath lies in its being commonplace.
Judith Shulevitz
Having two non-functional parties is not a democracy, it's a losing coin flip.
Russ Lippitt
Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
You know what? I don’t care about everyone. I never even cared about me. I cared about you.
Cristin Harber
I’m sorry to pull you out of your classes, but your adviser understands,” Kitteredge said. “He’s a friend of the family.”So that’s it, Neal thought. You bought me; you own me.
Don Winslow
We call this a “bow”, Cap’n, and the thing that’s sticking out of that fellow’s head over on the other side of the trench is called an “arrow”. If you put them together just right, they’ll do all sorts of nice things to people who aren’t nice.
David Eddings
I don't know what she's thinking, but I'm thinking how fluid the border is between crazy and interesting, and how hard it is to decide who belongs where.
Melissa DeCarlo
If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.
David W. Earle
In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.
Henri Nouwen
Oh, hey, kettle, I’m pot and wow, you’re black.” - Owen
Olivia Cunning
I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]
Gail Borden
Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon your shoulder and this brief message will be given: “Come home.
Billy Graham
Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemonsoff the tree! I don't wantto forget who I am, what has burned in me,and hang limp and clean, an empty dress -
Denise Levertov
Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.
Joss Whedon
It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.
Maggie Nelson
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.
Lynn Margulis
At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity--like the forces that control the weather, that capable of destruction, that hidden from view.
Ayana Mathis
One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.
Marvin J. Ashton
The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.
Laura Miller
It is this outer reach of existential abnegation – the moment where subjective identity deserts itself and becomes enslaved without consciousness of its subjugated condition – that Mirbeau consistently sought to decry with horror.
Emily Apter
KIRK: Anger will get you through the tough times when thinking happy f*cking thoughts about family and friends won’t do it. Just don’t let the anger eat you up until it’s all you got left. I know too many good men ruined by their resentments.
Bijou Hunter
Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.
E.A. Bucchianeri
The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power.
Brandon Sanderson
Nothing is more egregious than greedy politicians.
Sonia Rumzi
The humans had killed a dragon here or there for food. Just as a dragon had killed a human here and there for food. The dragons had never been told there was a being on this realm that wasna to be eaten."tLexi twisted her lips in revulsion.t"You eat nearly every animal on this planet, do you no'?"t"That's different."t"Hardly," he stated.
Donna Grant
More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.
Dean Koontz
This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.
David Foster Wallace
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
Annie Dillard
Collectivism is the "philosophy" of every cockroach and sewer rat: "If I want it, I must need it, and if I need it, I have a right to it, and if I have a right to it, it doesn't matter what I have to do to get it." Thefact that such an inherently animalistic, short-sighted, anti-humanviewpoint is now painted by some as compassionate and "progressive" does not make it any more sane, or any less dangerous.
Larken Rose
That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.
Cecily von Ziegesar
I learned to cope with my needs for attention by creating my own private personal rituals to make myself feel special.
Merrill Markoe
There are talking dogs all over the place, unbelievably boring they are, on and on and on about sex and shit and smells, and smells and shit and sex, and do you love me, do you love me, do you love me.
Ursula K Le Guin
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
T.S Eliot
Truth was she liked that he came after her. She liked the thought of being under submission to him in an intimate way. It was a welcome desire which Wharick alone sparked.
Madison Thorne Grey
As we drove uptown, I spotted a Kmart on a corner,with its familiar red sign.I cleared my throat."Wait. Can we stop for a minute?""What for?""Just - I need a few things."He looked irritated, but pulled into a metered space. "We don't really have time to go shopping."I glared at him."yeah, excuse me for being so frivolous. You have your suitcase all packed already; I dont even have clean underwear.I'll be right back.
l.a weatherly