Quotes by Authors - Page 2146

His mom was high when Whitey was born. She was also high when she named him. Esmerelda was the name of her sister, the only person in the world who ever treated her decently, and Torno was short for tornado, because that’s how it felt when Whitey came out.Whitey’s mom had a penchant for the cocaine.
Joey Truman
Of all the things I've ever done, perhaps none was more difficult than turning away from my beautiful girl and walking away, leaving her there, never to look back. But my friend Tom, my ever-faithful good friend Tom said, pointing down the hall away from Cec's room, 'Life's that way. Let's go home.'And so we did.
Jim Beaver
Her first really great role, the one that cemented the “Jean Arthur character,” was as the wisecracking big-city reporter who eventually melts for country rube Gary Cooper in Frank Capra’s Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). It was the first of three terrific films for Capra: Jean played the down-to-earth daughter of an annoyingly wacky family in Capra’s rendition of Kaufman and Hart’s You Can’t Take It With You (1938), and she was another hard-boiled city gal won over by a starry-eyed yokel in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). “Jean Arthur is my favorite actress,” said Capra, who had successfully worked with Stanwyck, Colbert and Hepburn. “. . . push that neurotic girl . . . in front of the camera . . . and that whining mop would magically blossom into a warm, lovely, poised and confident actress.” Capra obviously recognized that Jean was often frustrated in her career choice.
Eve Golden
Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known
Alexander McCall Smith
For indeed, what is more dire than the evils which today afflict the world? What is more terrible for the discerning than the unfolding events? What is more pitiable and frightening for those who endure them? To see a barbarous people of the desert overrunning another's lands as though they were their own; to see civilization itself being ravaged by wild and untamed beasts whose form alone is human.
Maximus the Confessor
I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something that isn't ready yet. Sometimes I don't write for weeks. And then all of the sudden I'll get a rush of inspiration and you can't drag me away from my notebook. But I don't stress out if I don't hit some arbitrary word count each day or if I go a few days without writing something.
Julie Ann Dawson
You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways--but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.
Hunter S. Thompson
From hopelessness within the mind rises hope itself
Nilesh Rathod
If wrappings of cloth can impart respectability, the most respectable persons are the Egyptian mummies, all wrapped in layers and layers of gauze
Kamala Suraiyya Das
The best way to choose the wrong door, or never even open the door, is to let fear run the show. When you reflect on any big-ticket decision you have made on the basis of fear and anxiety, you can almost guarantee you made the wrong decision.
Ramani Durvasula
Age can’t dull the beauty of life that reflects and radiates from within.
Debasish Mridha
Sometimes the effect arrives thanks to a different kind of breakthrough: a dramatic increase in our ability to MEASURE something, and an improvement in the tools we build for measuring. New ways of measuring almost always imply new ways of making.
Steven Johnson
We didn't make ourselves," she says. "We aren't the greatest things to exist. I can't believe that. I won't believe that. We have too many faults.
Lauren DeStefano
With a book he was regardless of time...
Jane Austen
Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.
David Levithan
The wilderness was the testing ground—the deciding place. It was a place of God revealing himself in a whole new and deeper way. Would his people trust him completely, confident in his goodness, wisdom, and power? Those who believed God to be who he said he was moved on into the promised land; many did not.
Amy Layne Litzelman
One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.
Diana Gabaldon
Please don’t take offense, but I want no part of this family or what comes with it.
B.J. Daniels
The universe is your attendant. It will bestow you with the silverest of its sunshine, coolest of moonlight and the most fragrant air. Each drop of water that goes into your thirsty body will turn into God's nectar that will nourish the cells of your body and make sure that you shine once again!
Sanchita Pandey
Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had.
Bill Bryson
They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds.
Dinos Christianopoulos
Warning: Contains a Norman warrior with a thirst for justice, a Welsh rebel princess with second sight and a steady bow hand, magical prophecies, and a plot of royal proportions.
Sandra Jones
Nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.
Jane Austen
My dear Mrs. Ali, I would hardly refer to you as old," he said. "You are in what I would call the very prime flowering of mature womanhood." It was a little grandiose but he hoped to surprise a blush. Instead she laughed out loud at him. "I have never heard anyone try to trowel such a thick layer of flattery on the wrinkles and fat deposits of advanced middle age, Major," she said. "I am fifty-eight years old and I think I have slipped beyond flowering. I can only hope now to dry out into one of those everlasting bouquets.
Helen Simonson
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Mary Ellen Chase
It's in a can. It's good forever.
Renata Suerth
General sentiment, had a poll been taken, was that eventually the negative media would die down, Egypt's head of antiquities would return to Cairo, and St. Louis would enjoy her treasure. But treasures sometimes have a higher price than their acquisition cost.
Michele Bonnell
A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.''It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly. 'Maybe not. But neither's your way of looking at it. There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong...
John Marsden
Our daily prayer ought to be: Please universe, help me help myself and help me show others how to help themselves.
Kamand Kojouri
I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.
Steven Ramirez
Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
Sheryl Sandberg
would you like to dance in the rain?
Atul Randev
His sisters -- my aunts -- did not go to school at all, just like millions of girls in my country. Education had been a great gift for him. He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls. The school that my father dreamed of would have desks and a library, computers, bright posters on the walls and, most important, washrooms.
Malala Yousafzai
Things change and friends leave and life doesn't stop for anybody
Stephen Chbosky
We have to help the one who has fallen, we should not question ‘why did you fall?
Dada Bhagwan
Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.
A.E. Samaan
True emotions yearn for genre love of God
Sunday Adelaja
During each encounter, ask yourself: How does this incident bring greater awareness into my life?
Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy
When you don't fit in, be sure to stand out.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.
Julian Assange
Prideful fool. It hurt his feelings that he couldn’t make my crazy go away. You know how men are. Always trying to fix things can’t be fixed.
Ken Wheaton
Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity.
Pearl Zhu
To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.
Joe Hill
I’m sorry, Bill, I thought you said something about aliens? Did you give up the menthols for marijuana? Or maybe they now have flavored joints as well?
Daniel P. Douglas
We dream of the future, to distract ourselves from the present, in order to forget the past.Heal the past, live in the present and don’t rush to the future. Life is a journey and it will all be over before you know it.
L.J Vanier
Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word too.
Oscar Wilde
It's elementary, my dear Winifred.
Miss Mae
The moment you think you can do something that you previously thought you couldn't, you can.
Richie Norton
Gimme an S! A T! An O! A C! Followed by a K-H-O-L-M! What's it spell? HEAD FUCK.- Jane
J.R. Ward
It is a strange thing that the human species can only go three days without water and three weeks without food, before the body dies. Yet, so many people can go years hanging onto pain and feeling emotionally dead inside. I suppose if it was the other way around more people would go to school to be morticians because of the booming business, or pastors would have to hand out Valium with the sacrament, just to keep the census high.
Shannon L. Alder
Sorry. Sometimes my mouth engages before making contact with my brain.
Jayson James
Everything I know, I know because of love.
Leo Tolstoy
the scary part is that people don't realize how much they've changed .
Simone Elkeles
One weekend it rained for 48 hours without stopping. The rain beat like bony fingers against the window panes. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Fungus was growing on the walls. I polished off a bottle of gin sitting huddled over the two-bar electric fire and wrote a poem, one of the few that has lasted through the moves and the years. It is called 'Where Can I Go?'If this is not the place where tears are understood where do I go to cry? If this is not the place where my spirits can take wing where do I go to fly?If this is not the place where my feelings can be heard where do I go to speak? If this is not the place where you’ll accept me as I am where can I go to be me? If this is not the place where I can try and learn and grow where can I go to laugh and cry?
Alice Jamieson
Because consciousness has no mass and extension, no parts or physical properties, it is Nothing, which on the other hand, can generate the matter and energy of the entire universe.
Ilchi Lee
What is believed in society is not always the equivalent of what is true; but as regards to a woman's reputation, it amounts to the same thing.
Margaret Atwood
There's no greater joy than being able to touch People's hearts.
Ana Claudia Antunes
It means that the things that make us human often make us ill.
Jonathan Rosen
My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it’d created the only type of guy I could touch—a fantasy one.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Sometimes letting someone go is the ultimate act of love.
Cassia Leo