Quotes by American Authors - Page 563

It was my first lesson in the fragility of attraction.
Aspen Matis
Alternatives and particularly desirable alternatives grow only on imaginary trees.
Saul Bellow
When one has let go of that great hidden agenda that drives humanity and its varied histories, then one can begin to encounter the immensity of one's own soul. If we are courageous enough to say, "Not this person, nor any other, can ultimately give me what I want; only I can," then we are free to celebrate a relationship for what it can give.
James Hollis
Results! Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
Thomas Eakins
I am not a snob, because I know opulence doesn't stamp out ignorance and unhappiness.
Sarina Bowen
Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town.
John Green
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
Thomas A. Edison
Are imperfections is which make we grate.
Craig Benzine
Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.
James Rozoff
All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.
Suzanne Collins
She knew the way of things. She knew ifyou weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the wholeworld came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards.Like a bottle against stones. Like a wrist pinned hardbeneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want andwine. . . .
Patrick Rothfuss
There is a need to find and sing our own song to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.
Barbara Lazear Ascher
Woman you’re as mean as a copperhead. Come here let’s find out if you’re as cold-blooded.
Katee Robert
Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it on.
David Foster Wallace
He dropped back into the couch cushions, stroking the condensation dripping off his glass. "You're in a pickle.""You want one?" Her eyebrows perked up, though her eyes weren't tracking well. "I think I have a jar in the fridge.
Kristin Miller
Spending all your energy on one opinion is like confining yourself to living in a box, and most people in a box aren't living.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
Racism, hate, and bigotry are EVIL and WICKED no matter how you try to rationalize it. I couldn’t imagine living my life with this crap in my heart. I love building new relationships and I enjoy learning about different cultures! If people would change their thinking and open up their hearts, they’d be amazed at the beautiful relationships that they could have. And, for the record, I couldn’t imagine ALL of my friends being black. There are too many amazing people from different backgrounds that I still have yet to meet. NO WAY would I limit my relationships based on race, absolutely not! I am free to like and love who I want to and I won’t allow anybody to persuade me with their opinions. I have my own mind! I’m my own person! I refuse to dislike and/or hate another race ‘just because!’ I am Stephanie Lahart: BOLD. BRAVE. STRONG.
Stephanie Lahart
Why is it that at the very moment I need to appear graceful I stumble and fall like a klutz, as though this scene had never played through my mind differently a million times?
Richelle E. Goodrich
You express the truth of your character, your dedication to your goals, and your commitment to your relationships with the choice of your actions.
Steve Maraboli
Kindness is a magical magnet which can change your heart and perceptions without actually touching you.
Debasish Mridha
Deep in earth my love is lyingAnd I must weep alone.
Edgar Allan Poe
The strength was always in you. All you had to do was find it.
Katherine Givens
Only those who leave home ever really find it.
Gene Ruyle
A piece of advice his father had given him surfaced in Edgar's mind. Sometimes, he had said, it's better just to keep quiet and think with your heart.
Sharan Newman
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and veryfew employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that onyour own time.
Charles J. Sykes
Love makes the world go around, but so does a gallon of vodka and a box of Cuban cigars.
Lois Greiman
Don't kill the game with your 'funk', elevate it with your humility.
T.F. Hodge
The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.
Criss Jami
Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan)
Beth Fine
I’m faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I’m a vampire,” Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. “If you get in trouble, I’ll be there.”“Nice,” Shane said. “I’m warming up to this bloodsucking thing, Mikey.”“No, you’re not.”“Okay, no, I’m not, but right now let’s pretend I am.
Rachel Caine
Are you telling me there is something better out there than icing in a can? Because I’m finding it hard to believe. That’s been my dirty little secret for years.”tIn a move he didn’t see coming, she chuckled and then shifted to straddle him until they were chest to chest. “That’s your dirty little secret?” She shook her head. “We’re going to have to work on that.
Samantha Chase
You’re not going to start screaming sonnets outside my bedroom window, are you?”He winked. “I just might.
Kenya Wright
Sometimes life is your opponent and just showing up is a victory.
JohnA Passaro
Across the seat our eyes are holding hands.
Jennifer Niven
The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever.
Charles Bukowski
I have an arrow living inside my chest that shoots straight toward you—even though I know the sky is falling for us. Even though I know all we’re destined for is dust. I can’t make it change course. It leads me to you every time I’ve tried to turn away
Emalynne Wilder
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham
I do write about men now and then, but I mostly write about women because that's the work I like best. When I became a feminist, I realized that somebody had to write all about this women's art that was out there ignored, and it was going to be me. And of course the ideas were particularly interesting to me, and the discoveries, about what women's art was and could be. I often say I'm more interested and mediocre art by women than in mediocre art by men – which is interpreted as I only like mediocre art or women only do mediocre art – all that shit. I don't write about mediocre art but I look at it and it does interest me for the information it gives me about women's imagery, women's psyches, women's lives, women's experience.
Lucy R. Lippard
Now, obviously, all old people seem cool whenever we see black-and-white images of their younger selves. It's human nature to inject every old picture with positive abstractions. We can't help ourselves. We all do it. We want those things to be true, because we all hope future generations will have the same thoughts when they come across forgotten photographs of us.
Chuck Klosterman
Relationships tend to be flawed because they are made up of inherently flawed components, mere human beings.
Anthony D. Ravenscroft
you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
Stephen King
A writer’s amulets include explication, free association, parallelism, antithesis, and epiphany to create a silhouette of that which heretofore did not exist and now speaks with an autonomous, ghostly reverberation.
Kilroy J. Oldster
The one luxury that I'll never give up is men.
Carolyn Roehme
When you see things through your heart, there is no right or wrong, true or false, only there is love to share.
Debasish Mridha
I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.
E.A. Bucchianeri
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
Janet Malcolm
Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.
Sherry Turkle
This time Elizabeth Ann didn't answer, because she herself didn't know what the matter was. But I do, and I'll tell you. The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing in school. She had always thought she was there to pass from one grade to another, and she was ever so startled to get a little glimpse of the fact that she was there to learn how to read and write and cipher and generally use her mind, so she could take care of herself when she came to be grown up. Of course, she didn't really know that till she did come to be grown up, but she had her first dim notion of it in that moment, and it made her feel the way you do when you're learning to skate and somebody pulls away the chair you've been leaning on and says, "Now, go it alone!
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Her caramel skin and curly beach sand hair spreads in wavy chops like the choppy storm waves on the ocean. Her fluffy rose colored lips glisten with eyes emerald green and almond shaped set deep into her face and yet when she looks at you with those same deep set eyes, it feels like they jump out, speaking to you.
Ami Blackwelder
I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.
Shannon Hale
Well we're waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teachers gave,If we worked hard,If we behaved...So the graduations hang on the wall,But they never really helped us at all,No they never taught us what was real,Iron and coke,And chromium steel,And we're waiting here in Allentown...But they've taken all the coal from the ground,And the union people crawled away...
Billy Joel
Rule number one. The good guys always win.Rule number two. If the good guys lose, we play again.
Charles S. Faddis
The death of our self-worth begins at its appraisal, for such an action erroneously implies that our worth can be quantified.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Goodreads.com is actually about fiction not dreading goo. But I have a profile there, anyway...
Michael A. Arnzen
I won't apologize for something I truly feel.
Faith Sullivan
People suffer all over the world, every day. But people triumph all over the world every day, too.
Mia Sheridan
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
Mark Twain
To be powerful, a kiss should make a journey, be its own story--begin with hesitation, move to realization, then melt into bliss.
Shannon Hale
These are maybe the most exciting stars, those just above where sky meets land and ocean, because we so seldom see them, blocked as they usually are by atmosphere…and, as I grow more and more accustomed to the dark, I realize that what I thought were still clouds straight overhead aren’t clearing and aren’t going to clear, because these are clouds of stars, the Milky Way come to join me. There’s the primal recognition, my soul saying, yes, I remember.
Paul Bogard