Quotes by American Authors - Page 3318

I love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn't stuck in one place.
N.D. Wilson
worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits.
George R.R. Martin
There, in the unconscious, we sleep upon the psyche's oceanic floor, together like some vast bed of kelp, each wavering strand an individual American, swaying in the currents of national suggestion. In the form of a giant Portuguese man-of-war, our government hovers, rippling above us, showering freshly produced national memory spores on the fertile bed of our forgetfulness. Schools of undulating corporate jellyfish pass over, sowing the brands of products and services ... followed by the octopi called media and marketing, issuing milky clouds of sperm to fertilise the seeds with the animating plasma of The Great Dream.
Joe Bageant
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy
Robert Half
It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don’t just end.
Isaac Marion
Puh-lease… Team leather and cocks isn’t always right.
Bink Cummings
Convention itself, like metaphor itself, is not dead; but it is always dying.
James Wood
That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always make sure you know only the very best people, then you won't care if you die tomorrow.
Carol Rifka Brunt
Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.
Mitch Hedberg
You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.
Craig Groeschel
Anytime there's a bad female stand-up somewhere, some dickhead Interblogger will deduce that “women aren't funny.” Using that same math, I can state: Male comedy writers piss in cups.
Tina Fey
No one is born with fear: we learn it, create it, and perpetuate it. Therefore, fear's biggest secret is we also control it.
Ken Poirot
Dams also tend to be built in remote areas which are the last refuge for species that have been displaced by development in other regions.
Patrick McCully
My mother was the bringer of storms. The dark and the light. Death and rebirth. She was as dangerous as she was beautiful as she rode the lightning. Once a potent force of nature she had the nerve to look down on us from those lofty heights.
Scarlett Amaris
The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)
Robin R. Meyers
Her abdomen clenched as he thrust hard once, filling her completely. Surprising her, he didn't start thrusting, but remained still inside her as he continued kissing her.tShe could kiss the sexy man for hours, be consumed by the taste and feel of him.t"Move, damn it," she gasped. She was aware the demand sounded a lot like begging. She was beyond caring. She needed more, more, more.
Katie Reus
When the dead are afraid, you know there's a big problem.
Maer Wilson
Why do you even have jewelry?" she asked. "You don't wear any."t"It seems I acquired it for you.
Erin Kellison
It is essential that you follow your own idea of passion, even if to others it looks like suffering.
Bryant McGill
If the human race would turn from its evil ways and return to God, putting behind its sins of disobedience, idolatry, pride, greed, and belligerence, and all the various aberrations that lead to war, the possibility of peace exists.
Billy Graham
I heard death had a name, but I forgot what it was.
Anthony Liccione
Joy in your Job is possible to the extent you're willing to choose it.
Todd Stocker
Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.
Susanna Kaysen
This is what people are talking about when they use words like grace.That moment, that morning, came vividly back to him whenever he thought of it. But soon suspicion set in. He understood well enough that life by very definition is upset, movement, agitation.
James Sallis
I kicked your arse and handed it to you like a hat.
Suzanne M. Sabol
Mike,” she said in her most seductive voice. “You know and I know that I want to get laid tonight. It’s been too long since I’ve been with a man. I’m interested in one room in this apartment and one room only.
Rosetta Bloom
The true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible.
Orrin Woodward
As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.
Brad Herzog
The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.
John Sherman
Love everyone, love everything, love every moment, and become the love.
Debasish Mridha
We hold on so tightly, because we’re terrified of loss. We hold on till our hands bleed. And in that self-shattering persistence, we fail to see the answer: Just let go.
Yasmin Mogahed
Even in good families a bad apple can begin an avalanche of troubles,' Dutch said as he sat back in his well-seasoned armchair, lighting his curved rustic pipe. From Book I, In Blood There is No Honor
Judith-Victoria Douglas
Some years ago I was invited to be on a television talk show with one of the most famous personalities in America. Afterward she took me aside and told of the emptiness in her life. “My beauty is gone,” she said, “I am getting old, I’m living on alcohol, and I have nothing to live for.
Billy Graham
Material things may satisfy your temporal desires, but none can be taken with you when you're gone. Build your hopes on things eternal !
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away.
Ryan Lilly
The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.
Brian Tracy
You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to
William S Burroughs
It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Very nice," said Rick after a while. "Very nice," he repeated, with more emphasis the second time. "What is?" I asked, turning to him, though I knew. "Everything," he said. And it was true.
Cheryl Strayed
Remember that setbacks are only challenges in disguise. Look at them as lessons . . . don't waste time beating yourself up. Just get back on track and focus on what you want. It's up to you , and you will do it!
Jorge Cruise
American dream,a spouse,a brace of children,cuddly pets,coffee-table books,rusted skeleton keys,plastic cauliflower bags,business cards of business-card printers,a mound of used airmail envelopes. Old house on moving day,all echoes and loneliness.
Brian D'Ambrosio
They were more free, but they were more alone.
Erich Fromm
Expect success, abundance, and happiness. You will attract only that which you expect.
Debasish Mridha
What a terrible round. I only hit two good balls all day and that was when I stepped on a rake in a bunker.
Lee Trevino
History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn't have to be who we are.
Shaun David Hutchinson
No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around.
Emma Forrest
And I don’t even like you, but the pain of life without you is biting.
Coco J. Ginger
Perception shows how deep one can understand an issue or a phenomenon, the mental strength.
Pearl Zhu
Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer?
Roman Payne
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
James C. Collins
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
James Humes
We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.
Douglas R. Hofstadter
The meal she served was unlike any I had encountered in Vienna, or anywhere else: red seaweed garnished with pickled radishes; black rice noodles and spotted mushrooms boiled in wine, grilled squid stuffed with flying fish roe; and yellow cherries sauteed in butter. The hot bread was laced with cinnamon and paprika. The goat cheese was coated with thyme honey.
Nicholas Christopher
All that grieved me - that I was half one thing and half another and nothing wholly - was the sorrow of my childhood, but the strength and use of my life after I grew up.
Ursula K Le Guin
Running IT with boldness doesn’t mean IT goes rogue, it means IT becomes more intelligent,
Pearl Zhu
I have an idea about voting, how about on every ballot we include "None of the above". People may laugh at that, but what that is, it is a vote of no confidence in your government and I'm willing to bet that in some elections, 'None of the Above' would win. Imagine if you won the election but lost to 'None of the Above'. Wouldn't that make you re-think your positions?
Jesse Ventura
This is one of mommy's friends, buddy," I told Gavin. (...)"You're Mommy's fwiend?" he questioned. Carter just nodded with his mouth open and no sound coming out. I’m pretty sure he didn’t even hear Gavin. Someone could have asked him if he liked to watch gay porn while painting pictures of kittens and he would have nodded his head. Before anyone could react, Gavin pulled back one of his little fists of fury and slammed it right into Carters manhood. He immediately bent over at the waist, clutching his hands between his legs and gasping for breath. "Oh my God! Gavin!" I yelled, as I scrambled over to him, bent down and turned him around to face me while my dad and Liz laughed like hyenas behind me. "What is wrong with you? We don't hit people. EVER," I scolded. While Carter tried to breathe again, my dad managed to stop laughing long enough to apologize. "Sorry, Claire, that's probably my fault. I let Gavin watch "Fight Club" with me last night." "Your fwiends got you sick the other night. You said he was your fwiend," Gavin explained, like it made all the sense in the world. This just made my dad laugh even louder. "Not helping, Dad," I growled through clenched teeth. "You don't make my mommy sick, dicky-punk!" Gavin yelled at Carter, putting his two little fingers up by his eyes, and then pointing them right at Carter just like Liz had done to him earlier. "Jesus Christ," Carter wheezed. "Did he just threaten me?" "Jesus Cwist!" Gavin repeated back.
Tara Sivec
If I could give one message to the bullied, it would be this: You are not alone. You are strong. You have a voice. You are beautiful. You are intelligent. There are many kids who want to speak up for you, but they don’t because they are afraid of becoming bullied themselves. There are many of us in the world who love you. I love you. You have the power to end this now. That power is in your voice. Find it. Once you use your voice, bullies want no part of you. If you feel that you lack the courage, fake it until you do. Finally, I know it’s hard to see a life that exists beyond high school. It is there, and it is beautiful.
Dan Pearce
We don't always get what we want but often something better happens and we become the person we always wanted to be.
Renae A.Sauter
They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep.
David Levithan