Quotes by American Authors - Page 628

Make sure you wear something appropriate, dear. You never know who you’ll run into and it’s always smart to look your best.
Joanne Fluke
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken made verbal and shared even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
Audre Lorde
...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.
Audrey Niffenegger
We still go where we want, even if we got to crawl for the right.' - Tom Joad (Jr.)
John Steinbeck
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
Audre Lorde
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway
I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing retribution.
Gerald L. Sittser
Some people would rather be right that happy, I choose to be happy".
Catie Hartsfield
Bradshaw especially didn't like the use of the word "experiment" in regard to social conditions. Experiments included of necessity, expendable components. Failure was a precursor to success. When the components were human, who had the audacity to use, lose them, toss them away?
Bernadette Pajer
Blood trickled from the corner of her (Annabeth) mouth. She croaked, "Family, Luke. You promised."Luke stared at the knife in Annabeth's hand, the blood on her face. "Promise." Then he gasped like he couldn't get air. "Annabeth . . ." But it wasn't the Titan's voice. It was Luke's. He stumbled forward like he couldn't control his own body. "You're bleeding. . . ." He gasped again."He's changing. Help. He's . . . he's almost ready. He won't need my body anymore. Please—""The knife, Percy," Annabeth muttered. Her breath was shallow. "Hero . . . cursed blade . . ."Luke turned and collapsed, clutching his ruined hands."Please, Percy . . ."Luke seemed to know what I was thinking. He moistened his lips. "You can't . . . can't do it yourself. He'll break my control. He'll defend himself. Only my hand. I know where. I can . . . can keep him controlled."I raised the knife to strike. Then I looked at Annabeth, at Grover. And I finally understood what she'd been trying to tell me. You are not the hero, Rachel had said. It will affect what you do. The line from the great prophecy echoed in my head: A hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap. My whole world tipped upside down,and I gave the knife to Luke.I watched as Luke grasped the hilt he stabbed himself
Rick Riordan
I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.
Kevin James Breaux
Few people understood the exceptional role the civil rights movement had on the white boys and girls of the South. Bill Clinton would never have become who he was without the shining example of Martin Luther King. The same is true of Jimmy Carter and Fritz Hollings and Richard and Joe Riley. Imagine this: you’re a little white kid and you watch firehoses turned on people who don’t seem to be hurting anyone, and fierce dogs being tuned on young men who carry signs about freedom. We white kids grew up watching movies and TV and guess what we had learned to do? We had learned to tell the good guys from the bad guys.
Pat Conroy
All he'd done was lose her underwear and practically get her blown up.Hell. This had to be the absolute worst first date of her life.
Tara Janzen
A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent.
Roy T. Bennett
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
William Inge
I identified a basic mistake my parents had made about life: They thought that it would be very wrong if anybody ever laughed at them.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
It appears that no one is so unfortunate that he or she is exempt from spending cuts, while at the same time no one is so fortunate as to be ineligible for a tax cut
Jonathan Schell
Wash your life with forgiveness and fill it with kindness.
Debasish Mridha
Yeah.” He touchedKelsey’s arm and felt a shock, like static electricity. But this went deeper, beneath his skin. “I’mgoing to go see what Cade needs. See you later?”She licked her lips, the action sending a different kind of electricity down south. What a time for hislibido to make a reappearance. “Yeah. See you later
Maisey Yates
One of her favorite lines was, "The difference between genius and stupidity s that genius has limits.
Kate Karyus Quinn
Make it so good and so clear that it doesn't need any further explanation.
Shel Silverstein
I'll marry that girl one day, you mark my words," Toby said.
Kat Green
Alice? You didn’t get this far without realizing that you don’t have to cheat to win. You just have to accept that people are easily manipulated.
Elle Lothlorien
Art should be for sale. The artist should not.
A.E. Samaan
The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite
Veronica Roth
Do you think someone can change? Like maybe in a year or two? Like, do you think if maybe two people aren't right for each other right now, maybe they could be later?
Stephen Emond
No matter what you're going through, have faith and have love.
Debasish Mridha
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by mself.
Herbert Hoover
The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I'd lost myself in the abyss of someone else's tyranny...again.
Cassandra Giovanni
We've grown accustomed to living smaller and more simply.
Nancy Petralia
Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.
Lemony Snicket
She wasn't any bigger than a minute and had hair like wild gold, and she was always merry as a marriage bell.
Sandra Dallas
...having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat...
M.F.K. Fisher
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Allah loves His creation. That’s why He rewards so greatly for serving them.
Yasmin Mogahed
Graveyards were the one place Belladonna never saw ghosts.
Helen Stringer
1. Feed off you. 2. Replenish you. 3. Repeat.
Darnell Lamont Walker
Birds are the eyes of Heaven.
Suzy Kassem
God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.
J.D. Salinger
It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.
Ishmael Beah
Summoning my inner Kojak, I tried to convince myself that she would have sat next to me even had there been somewhere else on the bus to sit. Unfortunately, I didn't do a very good job of self-persuasion. Good thing I wasn't in court suing myself, because I would have lost. From: "My Best Valentine's Day.Ever: A Short Story
Zack Love
It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes.
George Carlin
We mustn't speak of nightmares here, girly. Evil feeds on 'em, don't ya know it." Mr Trinozka (character)
Shayne Leighton
A hopeful journey is more important than the destination.
Dan Groat
Light has no value if there is no darkness.
Debasish Mridha
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews Edwards
Just realize that the Mechanics do not exist and are not worthy of your attention. Unless they threaten you, and then you must kill them, Mage Alain. Mechanics are as merciless as they are mercenary. If any appear dangerous, kill them. ...What if he had remembered that advice during the bandit attack, when the Mechanic had pointed her weapon at his face? He could have killed her then. He could have tried at least. Then, when she was dead, the bandits would have found Alain and killed him, too. Clearly the advice of his elders was lacking in some respects.
Jack Campbell
What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the Big Deed.
Becca Fitzpatrick
I may have faults but being wrong ain't one of them.
Jimmy Hoffa
For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.
Chuck Palahniuk
... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel,' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was.
Liz Murray
Yet hopefully things are different now, and I'm moving on to something better rather than attempting to suck more out of the same stale situation.
Doug Cooper
We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us.
Wendy Mass
I learned a strange thing... that in a jumble of unintelligible talk, the word "nigger" leaps out with electric clarity. You always hear it and it always stings. And always it casts the person using it into a category of brute ignorance. I thought with some amusement that if these two women only knew what they were revealing about themselves to every Negro on that bus, they would have been outraged.
John Howard Griffin
I would like to make fun plans with you, but then just do ordinary things; or plan ordinary things but find we have stepped through a wardrobe into a world of ordinary magic.
Waylon H. Lewis
Your angels guide you every second of every day. You are not alone and never will be!
Catherine Carrigan
My behavior last night was poor.""Poor?" Agatha coughed. "You pushed me through a window!
Soman Chainani
Don't needlessly draw attention to yourself. If you're twerking on the beach, a circling pteracuda could mistake you for a wounded animal.
Andrew Shaffer
The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.
Richard Paul Evans