Quotes by American Authors - Page 367

It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.
Dave Eggers
There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves.
Frank Warren
Your mind is the most powerful thing in your control.
Keith R. Holden M.D.
Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
Alice Walker
Look at your life like a blank canvas and you're the artist, now go ahead and paint your masterpiece." Ray Mancini.
Ray Mancini
The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.
Doug Peacock
She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.
Cassandra Clare
I consider myself a synthetic thinker in a virtual domain therefore if I’m way off there is no solid foundation or reference for authentic stupidity.
Carl Henegan
Shouts of dismay rose as the red flesh splattered against the table. It was only a tomato, but one would think I was pulping a decaying heart by the noise the big, strong FIB officers were making.
Kim Harrison
Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.
Susan Magsamen
This is why I choose not to have real-life girlfriends. I can’t even pretend without starting a fight.
Colleen Hoover
You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?
Richard Russo
When you are on top of your game you don’t have to talk about it, the world will do that for you.
Dorethia Conner Kelly
Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.
Paula Vogel
Of course the fall semester didn’t start for another eight weeks or so. There was always a chance we were both being overly optimistic in thinking I’d be alive when it rolled around.
Jenna Black
Have you been walking in the woods in the last few days?" Matt asked.Lola cleared her throat anxiously. What had she managed to do now, catch jungle fever? "We went hiking in the Greenhills on Wednesday. What's wrong?" Her voice sounded squeaky, so she closed her eyes and took a steadying breath."I don't suppose you've heard of poison ivy," Matt asked. He traced the curve of her knee, pushing the hem of her skirt up her thigh. "Small plant, three leaves, glossy green. Causes a rash of small bumps about a day after contact. Sound familiar?
Bonnie J. James
If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
To win in life, never forget to be content competing with yourself.
Debasish Mridha
I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.
Melissa de la Cruz
Methinks I see the sunset light flooding the river valley, the western hills stretching to the horizon, overhung with trees gorgeous and glowing with the tints of autumn -- a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
John Greenleaf Whittier
As I explore the wilderness of my own body, I see that I am made of blood and bones, sunlight and water, pesticide residues and redwood humus, the fears and dreams of generations of ancestors, particles of exploded stars.
Anne Cushman
there were worse things than feeling guilty, like feeling dead.
Lori Brighton
We don't act like that because we are in good humor we are in a good humor because otherwise we should go to pieces.
Erich Maria Remarque
A day without love is like a day without life.
Debasish Mridha
A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors.
David Brooks
It's a rare gift to be appreciated by even one person. In life, the majority may not ever notice you. Know You're still relevant. You're always great. There will always be countless varieties of energies on earth. Not just anyone- Nor will everyone see or hear the other, so its not at all personal. Nor is it even necessary for the majority to see you. Find time to appreciate and see yourself. Inside you will find your strength. It's in there. Stay true, Stay encouraged! If one person can make it then so can you. Oneness is what you are. If one gets there we all do. Say it again and again! Let the words echo throughout your being. Stay true to your dreams.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known [the nuclear bomb] ... I thought maybe my discovery might have the practical value of, say, neon in neon s
Harold Urey
There is no refuge from confession but suicide and suicide is confession.
Daniel Webster
If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.
Tamora Pierce
The purpose of college, to put this all another way, is to turn adolescents into adults. You needn't go to school for that, but if you're going to be there anyway, then that's the most important thing to get accomplished. That is the true education: accept no substitutes. The idea that we should take the first four years of young adulthood and devote them to career preparation alone, neglecting every other part of life, is nothing short of an obscenity. If that's what people had you do, then you were robbed. And if you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you were at the beginning - the same beliefs, the same values, the same desires, the same goals for the same reasons - then you did it wrong. Go back and do it again.
William Deresiewicz
I should never have allowed you to kiss me."t"Saints, Shona." Could she not see that he cared for her? 'Twas not as if he merely wanted beneath her skirts. She had stolen his heart.
Vonda Sinclair
The principal component in any genuine friendship is caring, not competition.
Charles F. Glassman
Lucien?”“Yes, Alice?”Her heart was pounding, but she willed herself to muster the courage to reach out to him— unpredictable, dangerous as he was. “I think it’s real.
Gaelen Foley
She knew that nothing was ever as overwhelming or final as he seemed to think - that if he would wait, instead of shouting, there'd be less to shout over in the end.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
Actions not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington
I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced.
Dean Koontz
The idea of “art for art’s sake” is a recent Western cultural phenomenon that in some ways both distracts and diminishes the reality of human creative expressions. If we define art broadly, then it permeates virtually every aspect of our lives. All of us search for and attempt to create that which is aesthetically pleasing; thus, we are all “artists.
James Peoples
He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.
Robin Hobb
Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.
Kristina McMorris
My friends never seem to yell at their kids. Even when their kids are behaving hideously, they pull them aside and say, now sweetie, you know you shouldn't, blah, blah, blah. Please don't yadda, yadda, okay sweetie? Maybe it's some bullshit show they put on for non-family members, but I'd have to be on happy pills to act like that
Brenda Wilhelmson
Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.
Joss Whedon
We must dare to face the way in which patriarchal thinking blinds everyone so that we cannot see that the emotional lives of boys cannot be fully honored as long as notions of patriarchal masculinity prevail. We cannot teach boys that "real men" either do not feel or do not express feelings, then expect boys to feel comfortable getting in touch with their feelings.
Bell Hooks
Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.
Ervin Staub
Miss Fitt, you know curiosity gets men killed."I grinned. "Then I daresay it's good I'm a woman.
Susan Dennard
That’s what money will buy you, in America,” Brown had said, firmly. “People say Americans are materialistic. But do you know why?” “Why?” asked Milgrim, more concerned with this uncharacteristically expansive mode of expression on Brown’s part. “Because they have better stuff,” Brown had replied. “No other reason.
William Gibson
For many years in Cuba, nobody spoke of the problem between blacks and whites. It was considered too disagreeable to discuss. But my father spoke to me clearly so that I would understand what happened to his father and his uncles during the Little War of 1912, so that I would know how our men were hunted down day and night like animals, and finally hung by their genitals from the lampposts in Guáimaro. The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books. Why, then, should I trust anything I read? I trust only what I see, what I know with my heart, nothing more.
Cristina García
Nothing here is like fighting vampires,' I said. 'It's more like fighting smoke. I think I liked it when I had an actual enemy to face.''Oh, don't worry, you have some. We just haven't seen them yet,' Jesse said. 'But we will. And wham we do...' She showed fang, just a flash; anybody who happened to catch a glimpse would have doubted their sanity, especially since the teeth disappeared in a flash. 'When we do, we'll settle this Morganville style.
Rachel Caine
Knowledge is so comforting, but so is mystery.
Deb Caletti
When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is to tell them to go ahead and stick their finger in the socket. And what I find is that what my argument failed to solve, electricity does quite nicely.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I am your opus.
Sylvia Plath
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
Orson Scott Card
Solve problems, make art, think deeply.
Susan Cain
‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.
David Benioff
My soulmust reachinto the cloudsand touch the beauty of madness.
Melody Lee
The world turns because Man is inspired to better himself
Wayne Wignall
Plant the seeds of gratitude to grow and enjoy the abundance of life.
Debasish Mridha
My belief that everyone is a person, no matter what they’ve done, and that taking a human life is wrong.
Alexandria Marzano-Leznevich
I smell?"t"You smell..." He flicked a glance at Bo, who was growling. "You tell her then."tBo's jaw tightened, but he looked at her with a rawness on his face that completely undid her. "Like roses and sunshine. It makes them want to kill you or eat you or..." He cleared his throat, not needing to finish because she knew what he meant. "It's very enticing.
Katie Reus
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale
Does it give you deja voodoo how alike the houses are?""That's deja vu, and I hate you right now.""For narcing on you to your mom? Wait until you hear what I tell your dad."From the sly grin on his face, she knew what he was thinking."Don't you even think about it.""I could tell him about the time we-""Hell, no.
Rachel Caine