Quotes by American Authors - Page 3329

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!
Henry James
A man in love does not notice the cut of the dress, but rather a face of a beloved.
Rhys Bowen
By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.
Rabih Alameddine
I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers. In the long hours of church--was it then I learned? I could not remember not being able to read hymns. Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces. I could not remember when the lines above Atticus's moving finger separated into words. But I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day, Bills to Be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Dow--anything Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee
I’m looking for Fat Hoochie Prom Queen,” I declared.He did not respond.“It’s a book,” I said. “Not a person.”Nope. Nothing.“At the very least, can you tell me the author?”He looked at his computer, as if it had some way to speak to me without any typing on his part.“Are you wearing headphones that I can’t see?” I asked.He scratched at the inside of his elbow.“Do you know me?” I persisted. “Did I grind you to a pulp in kindergarten, and are you now getting sadistic pleasure from this petty revenge?Stephen Little, is that you? Is it? I was much younger then, and foolish to have nearly drowned you in that water fountain. In my defense, yourprior destruction of my book report was a completely unwarranted act of aggression.”Finally, a response. The information desk clerk shook his shaggy head.“No?” I said.“I am not allowed to disclose the location of Fat Hoochie Prom Queen,” he explained. “Not to you. Not to anyone. And while I am not StephenLittle, you should be ashamed of what you did to him. Ashamed.
Rachel Cohn
In the holy solipsism of the youngNow I can't walk thru a citystreet w/out eying eachsingle pedestrian. I feelthier vibe thru myskin, the hair on my neck--- it rises.
Jim Morrison
I missed the joy of seeing our children grow and change. I thank God for watching over them during those years.
Billy Graham
If you have the goods, life's too short to wait. Hidden gold is lost gold. The world should not be denied an opportunity to touch the collective imagination. To those who deny both the world and themselves, their larder deserves absolute obscurity. For those who share, obscurity is relative and a spark remains to keep the embers warm.
Edward C. Patterson
Every person writes his or her life story similar to how a musician composes music. Author Milan Kundera noted, ‘Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of great distress.’ Guided by their aesthetic sense of beauty, a person transforms the intentional and fortuitous events of their life into an expressive episodic motif, which artistic creation assumes a permanent place in the composition of his or her conscious mind.
Kilroy J. Oldster
It is the finding of neuroscience, in fact, that belief is at least in part a matter of emotion. Whatever we believe to be true lights up areas of our brain responsible for self-identification and the processing of feelings and sentiments. If we believe something, then, the object of our belief becomes an emotionally potent aspect of our own self-image. There is some common sense to this, too: the most passionate of believers and the most strident of New Atheists are palpably, visibly fired up and ready to defend their positions.
Steve Volk
We’re animals. No shame, no guilt - no sin…
Heather McVea
ignorance and power, they´re a poor combination.
Laini Taylor
I hoped my solitude would help me reclaim my innocence, remember who I’d been, to find who I wanted to be. To become her. To love her, Deborah, Debby, Doll Girl, Wild Child, me, despite the irreversible truth that I’d been raped. I was learning again that I could trust myself and, also, I was seeing, other people. I was brave enough now to go out alone towards what I wanted, to trust that I was strong enough for it, to know that help would come when I needed it. It always came.
Aspen Matis
It doesn't matter who said it, as long as it changed you.
Shannon L. Alder
― all you have to do is kill every citizen at birth and then, by God, you're left with the perfect ―
William Marshall
Any marriage is hard work. But what I always say is, "Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.
Kevin Bacon
When you believe and act on your dreams, your dreams will become a reality.
Debasish Mridha
Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.
John Fogerty
Either be a good parent to your career or just give your dream up for adoption.
Loren Weisman
[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal."The kid lifted his eyebrows."My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to read. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing.
Jim Butcher
If you think about it, we get robbed of the mystery of being alive. I think we get robbed of the glory of it because we don't remember how we got here. When you get born, you wake up slowly to everything. From birth to 26, God is slowly turning on the lights, and you are groggy and pointing at things, and say "Circle," and, "Blue,", and, "Car," and, "Sex," and then, "Job," and, "Healthcare". The experience is so slow, you could easily come to believe life isn't that big of a deal, that life isn't staggering. Life IS staggering, and we are just too used to it.
Donald Miller
His smile is laced with dynamite.
Tahereh Mafi
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember that our desires will not arrive by our schedule. If you really want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.
Wayne W. Dyer
There was no arguing with a man's faith in the legends of his childhood.
Steven Saylor
If you have to dry the dishes (Such an awful boring chore)If you have to dry the dishes('Stead of going to the store)If you have to dry the dishesAnd you drop one on the floorMaybe they won't let youDry the dishes anymore
Shel Silverstein
Nothing is more simple than greatness indeed to be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like to comepletly give in to the emotion. If i pretend I´m not sad, if I try smiling through it,and pretend like everything´s fine, it makes it worse. When i give in and let it out, I feel better.
Michelle Madow
If it makes you happy, it’s what you’re supposed to do.
Pat Rodegast
Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, but I’m ready for this and I catch her easily by the arm.“Sorry, clumsy,” she says.“You always were, Sadie. One of your more endearing traits.”Before she can ask about that I slip my arm around her waist. She slips hers around mine, still looking up at me. The lights skate across her cheeks and shine in her eyes. We clasp hands, fingers folding together naturally, and for me the years fall away like a coat that’s too heavy and too tight. In that moment, I hope on thing above all others: that she was not too busy to find at least one good man …She speaks in a voice almost too low to be heard over the music. But I hear her – I always did. “Who are you, George?”“Someone you knew in another life, honey.
Stephen King
jerk.smokes cigars.will die of lung cancer,hopefully soon.excellent physical shape.
Becca Fitzpatrick
The central thought of the Scriptures is that God intends to work Himself in Christ through the Spirit into us, that God and we, we and God, might be really one in life, in nature, and in the Spirit. To show this God uses several figures or symbols in the Bible.
Witness Lee
Oh hell. They've got Mrs B in a bag!
L.J. Smith
We will never have a perfect world, but it’s not romantic or naïve to work toward a better one.
Steven Pinker
A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.
Missy Franklin
Your back looks so pretty with my name written on it in those beautiful little welts. If you continue to be a good boy, I'll kiss them all better when I'm done.
Reno MacLeod
The heart must be renewed by divine grace, or it will be in vain to seek for purity of life. He who attempts to build up a noble, virtuous character independent of the grace of Christ is building his house upon the shifting sand.
Ellen G. White
With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.
Orson Scott Card
Tatiana hugged him and said, “And here’s mine: ‘Honey, what do you prefer—my beautiful body or my beautiful face?’” “Your sense of humor,” returned Alexander, holding her to him until she couldn’t breathe.
Paullina Simons
Life is the clay from which dreams are molded.
Richelle E. Goodrich
If life is a journey, It can take you anywhere you wanna go.
Christina Aguilera
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
Maya Angelou
It was only too bad that to gossip and support mean ideas was easier and more enjoyable, really, than to keep quiet and know in silence that the true story can never be told, articulated in a way that will tell the whole truth. Even if it is better to be quiet, quietness will never reign. People talked, even the best of them.
Amanda Coplin
You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.
Jennifer Lopez
Our politicians tell us we are free, even though most governments take over 50% of what we earn. They claim we get services that we need for our hard-earned money, even though we could buy the same services at half the price from the private sector. Today, we ridicule the slave-owners' claim that they "gave back" to their slaves by housing, clothing, feeding them, and bestowing upon them the "benefits" of civilization instead of leaving them in their native state. We see this as a self-serving justification for exploitation. In the future, we will view being forcibly taxed to pay for things we don't want, such as bombs for the Middle East, subsidies for tobacco, other people's abortions, regulations that put small businesses out of business, prisons for people trying to feel good, keeping life-saving medications out of the hands of dying people, etc., as taking away our freedom. When even a small portion of our lives is spent enslaved, that part tends to dominate the rest of our time. If we don't put our servitude first as we structure the remainder of our lives, our masters will make sure we regret it. How much freedom do we need to survive and how much do we need to thrive?
Mary J. Ruwart
People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.
Holly Black
When you are able to find your peace of mind, you will fill your world with peace.
Debasish Mridha
For the rational psychologically healthy man the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
Nathaniel Branden
Now you make yourself come, bitch. And I'll know if you're faking. You make that cunt clench around my cock or I swear to God I'll make you regret it
Cara McKenna
If the solar winds have stirred far off in the velvety night then showers of light --gold and violet. rose and green--paint the sky.
Kathleen Valentine
By far the biggest portion of a bushel of American commodity corn (about 60% of it, or some 50k kernels) goes to feeding livestock, and much of that goes to feeding America's 100 million beef cattle
Michael Pollan
The only peace the only security is in fulfillment.
Henry Miller
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please-you can never have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best thing about now, is that there's another one tomorrow.
Tim Tharp
A conscious mind is the playground for thoughts and ideas and the ultimate source of personal philosophy.
Debasish Mridha
Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken.
Carew Papritz
In any case, muffins that are only imaginary aren't liable to get stuck.
Thomas M. Disch
What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I'm keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life.
Donna Lynn Hope
If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.
R. Albert Mohler Jr.
Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory in this way, but the moment the study are in insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.
Frank Herbert