Quotes by American Authors - Page 494

Things are wonderful when we look at them with magic in our hearts.
Debasish Mridha
When you're making something, you're in a different state. You go into a deep level of concentration, to the point where you're not self-conscious anymore, it's just flowing out of you.
David Rakoff
It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
Barry Lyga
All a woman needs is a little pampering and a little perspective and she is ready to conquer the world.
Jennifer Ott
Whether you’re at the peak or the valley of any given wave, remember that this too shall pass.
Dashama Konah Gordon
This wasn't how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.
Leila Sales
While you're saving your face you're losing your ass. Never trust a man whose eyes are too close to his nose. I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket. Better inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock.
Edgar Allan Poe
He's getting older," Charles said darkly. "Shall I hit him with my walker or my oxygen tank?
Suzanne Brockmann
This is a grave. There is no honor here in broken tools and old bones, only in the deeds of our children.
Mike Mignola
I told Quynn that I'm in love with you."Her face gets real red. That damn cute red that drives me crazy. "Um, why would you do that?"I shake my head, smiling at her. "Cause its the truth, you dork.
Becca Ann
It was "Boom Boom" Dupont who had ripped Kit out of the Humvee after the IED went off, the IED that turned the entire undercarriage of his truck into a fiery wall that consumed the five men inside.
Siobhan Fallon
Writing THE LITTLEST HUNTER: THE JOURNEY BEGINS the first book is The Littlest Series. Sharing my stories with everyone allows me to reach out to all the two-year-old to eight-year-olds everywhere helping them experience the adventures involving a young boy who communicates with animals promoting life-lessons and caring for one another. It has been gratifying to see my test audience of three and five-year-old's responding as they hear the story’s adventures
John W. Kurtze
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies.
Billy Graham
To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that in this world that is a very dangerous attitude.
Stephen King
An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.
Tom Bissell
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself.
Fredric Jameson
So the question becomes, Daughter of the Dragon, what will you sacrifice? What will you let be taken away so that you, too, can have power?
Kiersten White
Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
When a man is loved by a strong, confident woman he too is stronger and more confident. Once he has been touched by the tenderness of a strong, confident woman he too can touch with tenderness. That kind of love is contagious.
Toni Sorenson
Wherever you are, be there with love.
Debasish Mridha
Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.
Suzanne Collins
They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words.
Edward O. Wilson
I'm still angry with him, but I follow him through the drizzle anyway. Because this is Levi. This is my hero. And you always follow your heroes, even when you're mad, even when you'd rather punch them in the mouth. That's how trust works. It's blind and unconditional and it takes you places you can't reach by yourself.Just like love.
Chelsea Fine
Follow Your Dreams, Except the One Where You’re at School in Your Underwear
Annabel Monaghan
To be future strong, you will face difficult hardships. Usually, there is no absolutely right or absolutely wrong choice. The key is to be intentional: Choosing the best hardships for your best future.
Bill Jensen
She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen.
Christopher Poindexter
Quinn spoke their language—all mystery and inside jokes, scarred souls and statement shirts. It was a beautiful moment for him—in his element and completely happy.When they started playing, he leaned over and whispered in my ear. “See that guitar?”I nodded.“That’s a 1969 Martin D28. Hear me when I say if I had to choose between a beautiful girl and that guitar, I’d choose the guitar. Natch.” He took a huge gulp of water, clearly affected.“Naturally,” I whispered. “It could be why you’re still single.
Laura Anderson Kurk
Someday you will die. Because you are embodied through and through, at that point you will cease to exist. You will not meet death, because, as the sage says, "Where death is I am not; where I am death is not, so we never meet." When you die there will no longer be any self that is you. Use your self while you have it.
Owen J. Flanagan
I also have a list of favorite noises. It has one item on it: Kit's laugh.
Julie Buxbaum
Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.
Bryant McGill
Either let me love more or let me go.
Debasish Mridha
I asked Mama was it a sin to do what I done, and she said no, it was the same as David slaying Goliath, it was only to save Ulyssa and the others, not because of meanness that I did it. I would do it again, too. I am not sorry, but this has hurt my heart and spirit more than all the other trials, for being forsaken is worse than being killed.
Nancy E. Turner
Faith is such a wonderful thing. Without it, we would be panicky when we feel like we're standing alone and when the things we need and yearn for seem to be beyond our reach.
Ron Brackin
For excellent health and a good skin color, I recommend that people sit next to a shady ultraviolet transmitting window when indoors.
Steven Magee
Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbour.
Ambrose Bierce
I guess what they say is true. Anything the government wants to hide, they stick it in New Mexico
Maya Banks
You cannot thrive under the wrong stars, Kricket… the stars here are in opposition to you… can’t you feel it?… Let us take you home.
Amy A. Bartol
Life is seldom as unendurable as to judge by the facts it logically ought to be.
Brooks Atkinson
Do not tell someone you are hungry if, whenever they feed you, you do not eat.
Criss Jami
A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
James Baldwin
She dreamed that somebody replaced her nerves with puppet strings. The unseen puppeteer resisted every move she made, and Nina was still ensnared when sunlight tickled her eyes open. For weeks, her actions lagged, leaden, as if cement thickened in her marrow, her skull, and her heart-bearing chest.Later, Nina learned the puppeteer’s name: Depression.
Darcie Little Badger
I get so concerned that someone will think I don't care about them that I don't even see they don't care about me.
Kate McGahan
If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus
Rob Bell
Be confident because the odds are in your favor.' He clears his throat, like talking this much hurts him. 'Not because you're a special snowflake.
Hannah Moskowitz
We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers
Isn't it lucky?
James Patterson
She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.
Holly Black
And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I had known nothing even as the evil was occurring, I hadn't been touched yet.
Louise Erdrich
Most accounts of mystical experiences... insist that the Other in the encounter appears to be "living" or alive, as in "living God." But is it alive in any biological sense? Does it eat and metabolize? Does it reproduce - an option that monotheism would seem to foreclose?
Barbara Ehrenreich
Fear was a reminder that even the insubstantial could kill. But insubstantial meant it had no shape. It couldn't be conquered or tamed or avoided. Only moved through, with force and will.
Roshani Chokshi
Once and for all, let us speak the paradox aloud: "We have been force-fed for so long the shudders of a thousand graveyards that at last, seeking a macabre redemption, a salvation by horror, we willingly consume the terrors of the tomb...and find them to our liking.
Thomas Ligotti
If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If there never was a night or day and memories could fade away, then we'd be nothing left but the dreams we made
Selena Gómez
...the modern bias in contemporary Western scholarship (which has spread to the rest of the world as well) insists upon focusing all attention on the formation of the modern world and ‘‘modernity.’’ By directing attention to a time period rather than to a region, Western scholars can place the West at the center of any discussion, and subordinate backward Asia to Western history, without explicitly condemning Asian cultures and polities or arguing for a narrowly Eurocentric view of the world. Nevertheless, modern history is effectively a racist pursuit that not only elevates white Westerners above all others, but also actively denigrates Asian history.
Peter A. Lorge
Go away from your comfort zone to feel the beauty of life.
Debasish Mridha
See appendix A for a proof that Winston Churchill was a carrot.
Charles Seife
Genius is measured not by static volume but by kinetic vision.
Rich DiSilvio
It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not possess and effects they can not produce.
Andrew Jackson