Quotes by American Authors - Page 3162

In the shop, breathing the scent of dusty grease and oil; in the old house, staring into the living room where Dad and Jake used to take naps together on the couch; in the sheep barn, remembering the joy implicit in so much baaing life; in every inch of the farm, I recalled my father’s presence.
Julene Bair
Life was profligate with beauty, only if you stopped to look, only if you had someone to share it with.
Elliot Mabeuse
Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary – I know all the other words. None of them speak the same language that my fucking heart does.
Anis Mojgani
This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory," not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing.
Richard Rohr
Sexy is a decision. We decide that our spouse looks sexy to us. Period. It doesn’t matter our age or how long we’ve been together.
Cathy Burnham Martin
Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last Night story. You knew the answer. The plague had a knack for narrative closure.
Colson Whitehead
Dear Single Ladies, Love is precious, Remember this: You are worth pursuing. Don't Cheapen Yourself
Genereux Philip
There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridicu
Raymond Chandler
The world deprived of clear-cut outlines, of the up and the down, of good and evil, succumbs to a peculiar nihilization, that is, it loses its colors, so that grayness covers not only things of this earth and of space, but also the very flow of time, its minutes, days and years. Abstract considerations will be of little help, even if they are intended to bring relief. Poetry is quite different. By its very nature it says: All those theories are untrue. Since poetry deals with the singular, not hte general, it can't - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth other than as colorful, variegated, and exciting, and so, it cannot reduce life, with all its pain, horror, suffering, and ecstasy, to a unified tonality of boredom or complaint. By necessity poetry is therefore on the side of being and against nothingness.
Czesław Miłosz
Some days I wonder how I'll get through a whole lifetime of thinking. A life that's just words, words, words, shuffling around in my head. Was I born that way?
Rachel Klein
Inaction is no longer acceptable.
Eric Lowitt
I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me in trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.
Carl Sagan
When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
Abraham Verghese
I swear it only hit me then, with full conscious force, who the real villains of this piece had been from start to finish…those lying, cancerous dogs of the mainstream media!
Paul Christensen
We attract what we are. We attract who we are.
Bryant McGill
When I am idle and shiftless my affairs become confused when I work I get results ... not great results but enough to encourage me.
Edgar Watson Howe
. . . there was no possible way to deny that this girl probably felt emotions much deeper than most other people. If anyone was human, she was.
J. Kowallis
The clouds behind the castle darkened and rolled, embracing the mountain and the white towers. And as the princess became more animated, the clouds rolled faster and faster. They twisted and deepened in color until a deafening crack sliced through the air.
Brittney Joy
All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think -- and never die, of course. It's sick is what it is. I don't want to be a forever-young living corpse.
Dean Koontz
This journey has nourished my soul in a way I couldn't have imagined.
Sandra Vischer
Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind.
Debasish Mridha
The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.
Blake Lively
Fuel your life with passion.
Teresa Collins
-Bumblebee bat, how do you see at night?-I make a squeaky sound that bounces back from whatever it hits. I see by hearing.
Darrin Lunde
The main dry storage room of Sin du Jour is filled with a light unseen on Earth since a time of abject innocence.And that was long ago, indeed.
Matt Wallace
To know true love, even though it was impossible to keep, had finally cracked her heart open enough to let someone else in.
Andrea Hurst
Every morning is a big, bright, window that opens just for you to fill your life with the light of joy.
Debasish Mridha
Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.
Chuck Palahniuk
The most amazing people are those who love life and humanity.
Debasish Mridha
Harriet resisted, until Tara pulled out the big move...the combination "lean-against nuzzle, with a slight lick and an adoring glance." In dog-land the move had a degree of difficulty of nine point seven, and as far as I know, there is no known defense against it.
David Rosenfelt
In a sermon entitled “God’s Providence,” C. H. Spurgeon said, “Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. ‘Ah,’ said Napoleon, ‘but I propose and dispose too.’ How do you think he proposed and disposed? He proposed to go and take Russia; he proposed to make all Europe his. He proposed to destroy that power, and how did he come back again? How had he disposed it? He came back solitary and alone, his mighty army perished and wasted, having well-nigh eaten and devoured one another through hunger. Man proposes and God disposes.
Jerry Bridges
... but remember that I shall love your sorrow...
Cordwainer Smith
Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get. The treacled pop songs, the dresses described in the catalogs with words like 'sunset' and 'Paris'. Then the dreams are taken away with such violent force; the hand wrenching the buttons of the jeans, nobody looking at the man shouting at his girlfriend on the bus.
Emma Cline
They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb...
Frederick Buechner
Hope is a song in a weary throat.
Pauli Murray
My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.
Maureen Corrigan
SAUL: 'We made love outdoors, my favorite place to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the earth beneath be clean. Our souls intertwined and dripping with sweat.
Roman Payne
No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.
Audre Lorde
And so, in silence, we walked the surface of a dying world, but in the breast of one of us at least had been born that which is ever oldest, yet ever new.I loved Dejah Thoris. The touch of my arm upon her naked shoulder had spoken to me in words I would not mistake, and I knew that I had loved her since the first moment my eyes had met hers that first time in the plaza of the dead city of Korad.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
and everyone wants to read the poem we’re afraid to write.
Kelli Russell Agodon
Writing is the thing that props me up.
Horton Foote
The paradox of indecisiveness lies in uncertainty.
Pearl Zhu
Teeth clenched, she swiped the light switch next to the door, but all she got was a 'click.'t'Click, click.'t"Ugh," Lindsey moaned. She'd need to flip a breaker, and for that she'd need a flashlight. But that would only fix things if the power was actually on.t"I'm working on that." The deep voice with a drawl came from the dark hallway, and the man that matched it stepped out of the shadows.
Tracy March
And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.... Don't settle
Steve Jobs
An iron? Was he kidding? God
Suzanne Johnson
Our modern-day society is often so consumed with external appearances that living a virtuous life may sound boring and dull. However, the love and beauty that lies deep within the human spirit resonates with plain and simple goodness.
Susan C.Young
Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.
Patricia A. McKillip
Because, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, I was embraced by the gays. They loved me and praised me. I was funny and so mean and mature for my age!
Tina Fey
So you’re her brother?” says Lynn. “I guess we know who got the good genes.”I laugh at the expression on Caleb’s face, his mouth drawn into a slight pucker and his eyes wide.
Veronica Roth
THESE ARE THE REASONS, THEN, FOR WHICH A MAN CAN BE CONFIDENT ABOUT THE FATE OF HIS SOUL – AS LONG AS IN LIFE HE HAS…DEVOTED HIMSELF TO THE PLEASURES OF AQUIRING KNOWLEDGE …WITH SELF CONTROL, AND GOODNESS, AND COURAGE, AND LIBERALITY, AND TRUTH…”SOCRATES’ LAST WORDS IN PLATO’S PHAEDO
Dean Chavooshian
Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood . . . Make big plans aim high in hope and work.
Daniel H. Burnham
I believe there is dignity in sorrow simply because it is God's good pleasure that there should be. He is forever raising up those who are brought low.
Marilynne Robinson
...Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times... ...Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on... Quote on the Title Page of "Love TORN Asunder
Elizabeth Funderbirk
The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation.
Sandra L. Schneider
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
Robert Frost
I guess if you leave the milk of human kindness out in the sun too long, the sour cream of the crop will rise to the top.
Leland Gregory
I don´t want to be a ghost or a stupid sexy cat. I want to be something that I really want to be.
Ava Dellaira
The only honest way to approach the question of whiteness and blackness is to start by accepting that these are arbitrary categories that were invented in the 17th and 18th century in order to justify imperialism and slavery. They’re categories intended for the enforcement of power. They were never intended to be psychologically satisfying in the way we want them to be.
Jess Row
Marry the person who makes you feel like you can face life together. Because that’s what it’s about. It’s about facing life together.
C. JoyBell C.
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.
Harry Emerson Fosdick