Quotes by American Authors - Page 843

All I want is some man to take delight in me. 5:30? 6:30 A.M. as usual, no cigs. Better a maudlin drunk than a sterile one. My pimples are more like small boils; I have the plague. My lip is split. My tits are swollen and I can't ever sleep. I now breathe with my heart, which skips rope. Back to sex?
Maryse Holder
Appreciating what I have is my medicine.
Betty Jamie Chung
Dan P. McAdams argues that children develop a narrative tone which influences their stories for the rest of their lives. Children gradually adopt an enduring assumption that everything will turn out well, or badly, depending on their childhood.
David Brooks
Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
Thornton Wilder
i needed someone who wasn't hell-bent on fixing me. someone without an agenda. someone who saw beauty marks instead of flaws. someone who wouldn't leave me when my past caught up with me. someone who would love me. unconditionally.
Adrian Michael
...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming her a Master of Art. “Imagine working for years to obtain a piece of paper we can hardly read ” Katherine joked. “And to officially declare you have talent ” Suzy returned.
E.A. Bucchianeri
Basketball Rule #5When you stopplayingyour gameyou've alreadylost.
Kwame Alexander
Don’t do it! Don’t you dare think about giving up! EVERYTHING has a process. Work with the process, not against it. Move forward with purpose and never stop believing. You can do this! You know you can.
Stephanie Lahart
Its funny whenever people who have'nt seen me in years meet up with me again and they are surprised that I'm not as shy and quiet as I was in the past, I credit that to my years of drinking at bars and partys and conversing with people I would never useally talk to, it was then I relized that even without drinking I could still talk to people just as easy. But It is still a little funner with a few beers in me.
Kenny D. Eichenberg
It goes without saying that a great majority of men are sex addicts, or would be if they could manage to get laid.
Drew Nellins Smith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness... & ... Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.–
John Kenneth Galbraith
When shame becomes a management style, engagement dies. When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation .
Brené Brown
Huh, a lovers quarrel with a vampire- seems like a fantastic idea!
Joann I. Martin Sowles
I guess that we all need freedom, we all have a reason why we are here, but the most annoying thing is that we're mostly lost in our way, we are mostly wrong about things around us, Which it drives us nowhere than somewhere.
Sara Keddar
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
Lucretia Mott
The river moves, but it follows a path. When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a new way. Hard work, but that's its nature.
Kekla Magoon
Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our need to be recognized. Without them, we'd be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent ourselves every minute.
Nicole Krauss
At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.
Alan Watts
In third grade I thought I loved her - by sixth grade, I was sure of it
Emma Chase
Miranda was shocked to hear Nicholas speak of slavery in glowing terms, as an efficient agricultural system. This wasn't the South! Yet as she surveyed her employer's strong dark profile in secret from beneath her long lashes, she was forced to conclude that the role of master suited Nicholas Van Ryn perfectly. Even when she closed her eyes, the impression of cruelty and power remained. But it was herself she saw as the darky slave, stripped of her free will and trembling at her master's approach.
Anya Seton
You should not confuse your career with your life.
Dave Barry
Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you...not ever...
Judy Blume
See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Ray Bradbury
A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is like to be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. Even more paradoxically, a poem permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.
Mark Strand
You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.
Rachel Caine
The real origin of the democratic spirit - and most likely, many democratic institutions - lies precisely in those spaces of improvisation just outside the control of governments and organized churches.
David Graeber
You could get crickets to pop out of a book as a little, little girl, but now you have to relearn it? Well, children can do so many things until they're told they can't.
N.E. Bode
All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Pearl S. Buck
Although I'm an atheist, I try not to crap all over people's belief in God. It may be nothing more than a placebo, a fairy tale that gives the hopeless hope, but sometimes a little hope is all people need to get through the day. Imagine a unit of soldiers under heavy enemy fire. They are told by their superiors to hold their position, even in the face of overwhelming fire power. The soldiers are being told that reinforcements are on the way, and that thought alone gives them the hope and courage to continue fighting, even if ultimately the reinforcements never arrive. I think some people simply need to believe that God is sending them reinforcements, to get through another day.
Oliver Gaspirtz
As a screenwriter - if you are completely honest with yourself - you can’t help but admit that your greatest threat is the audience, where audience is not understood as a demographic category but as a character outside the script to whom the story is addressed. A good part of the drama necessary for uncovering the story resides in the conflict between the storyteller and his/her audience. Audience plays the part of antagonist to the writer’s role as protagonist. The writer drives the action, which is forever complicated, frustrated and undermined by the audience’s needs and sensibilities. Audience wants you to prove it. Audience has a chip on its shoulder, and doesn’t give a damn. Audience has been there and done that in the guise of your mother, your father, your ex-, your worst enemy. Audience laughs at your stupidity and dares you to change its view of you and the story world that you would have it care about. Audience is defiant. It has your number. The only way you can defeat it is by carrying a bigger stick - your only defence is an inspired offence, namely the story.
Billy Marshall-Stoneking
There are three kinds of fighters: the aggressive fighter who charges in blindly trying to get the upper hand, the defensive fighter who blocks and evades until his opponent is tired, and then the most dangerous type of fighter, the one who waits for his opponent to make a mistake.
Aaron B. Powell
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Erich Fromm
I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.
Kurt Vonnegut
To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.
Joshua Foer
You want to go back, and so you hold on to the habits you learned while you were traveling, because it's better than admitting the journey's over.
Seanan McGuire
What makes or breaks us ultimately is our attitude toward the things we can't control.
Marty Rubin
Once we were alone, Imogen unfolded her hand. In it, she held the key to the chains. I had passed it to her while we were in the embrace. Roden noticed it and scowled. "You gave her the key and not me? I could be free already."I smiled at him. "Yes, but I wasn't going to kiss you.""Fair enough
Jennifer A. Nielsen
To world enough and time.
Audrey Niffenegger
To all you writers, artists, musicians, creative types who want to give up: It's okay to walk away for a bit. Get your second wind. But your writing, art, music will be there, lurking over your shoulder, and it will call to you, and you will answer. And come back even stronger.
Kathleen M. Rodgers
God’s Word must come to a person and enter them in order to change their life.
Andrew Wommack
After leaving Egypt, Moses and his people endured a forty-year commute, starting with a truly epic crossing of the Red Sea (which made getting through the Lincoln Tunnel at rush hour seem like traipsing across a country bridge in a sundress on a spring afternoon).
BikeSnobNYC
Your art…” I gaped at the field of white. “There was a lovely portrait of me—right there.”I get offended whenever art is damaged, especially if that art features me.
Rick Riordan
She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer for it.
Charles Bukowski
You were saved when you believed in Jesus, but you were transformed when you realized He believed in you.
Kris Vallotton
She hoped he could move on one day and find happiness. He had the luxury to try. She hoped he would su
Kiersten Fay
Autumn is coming. For as long as I can remember, I've talked to the moon. Asked her for her guidance. There's something deeply spiritual about her waxing and waning. She wears a new dress every evening, yet she's always herself.And she's always there.
Stephanie Perkins
History, practical experience, common sense and economic theory all agree: economic competition is probably one of the greatest ideas humans ever came up with. When people compete to achieve the same goal, great things seem to happen that otherwise would not. Things get done faster, cheaper, and better; new methods for lifting a weight or quenching a thirst are invented; the average guy ends up with more of the stuff he likes at a lower price than before. That is why, in the end, socialism collapsed like a rotten wall: it did not allow its people to compete and, as a result, it not only made their economic life miserable, but strangled their hearts and souls.
Michele Boldrin
We are spontaneous when we are at our genuine best.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
The heart will stretch a short love into long memories.
Darnell Lamont Walker
I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy.I'm tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.
Lana Del Rey
I am feeling more. I feel everything more. I cannot express it. I can hardly keep track of it all. It is you! All you! Everything!
Dawn Metcalf
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil Gibran
All we’ve got left to protect here is a system that’s set up to promote the meanest possibilities in human nature and make them look good.
William Gaddis
Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
I just want to domething that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
John Green
Our memories are like a city: we tear some structures down, and we use the rubble of the old to raise up the new ones.
Tom Pollock
Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
Alec Wilkinson
Believe not in the reality, but believe in the possibility.
Debasish Mridha
Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.
Anna Deavere Smith
I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb...
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.