302 quotes found
“Hqve you never heard of priests proclaim that the meek will inherit the earth and wondered if kings of old didn't smile to hear it? Your reward comes after death. Nirvana. The wheel of life turns a...”
“No man of honor avoided what needed to be done, simply because it might not proceed in his favor.”
“I had good intentions once upon a time. Well, September.”
“I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one.”
“I pulled my suitcase out of the backseat of my bug, along with Cannoli's new travel case, a spiffy animal print pet backpack on wheels. When I first saw it, I thought maybe the dog was supposed to ...”
“There also wasn't one single bit of grass or dirt outside the airport. Even the median strip was a concrete sidewalk. Where did Atlanta's pet travelers pee? Maybe city dogs just learned to use the ...”
“Because nobody knows you better than somebody who knew you way back then.”
“Geniuses have the shortest biographies.”
“Why are you asking me? I'm seventeen and don't know anything about what to do when you're autistic and gay.”
“You move forward because you have to. Life doesn't stand still. It makes you move on until you want to move on, you know? It'll run you over if you don't move.”
“When my cell phone rang, I'd just finished cutting up my marriage mattress.”
“Nature had refused to offer herself to them. The water, the green, the mammalian, the tropical, the semitropical, the leafy, the verdant, the motherloving citrus, all of it was denied them and had ...”
“All the bad publicity they brought down on us, yes, it came, and yes, it hurt usfor a day. Thats how long the dirt clung, maybe a bit less. Twitter, Facebook, TV and internet newsyou know how long ...”
“The press, the media, the internetthey'll make the noise, make the screaming, the screaming all the time, and the truth and my voice will be lost. The blaming and the noise, human things, they'll m...”
“Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do and what make it leaves in the world.”
“Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy--they should be about what mark you leave in the world.”
“Okay. I've got one. Do you think Pluto should still be considered an actual planet in its own right?""Much better. And yes, I do. I had to memorize the planets when I was in third grade, and it was...”
“I'm not sure if you've noticed this yet, but Jenny Sullivan likes to overuse people's first names. It's a technique she read about in a book called Own It - Take Life By The Bollocks. She once said...”
“I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I realized that I hadn't done it.”
“Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.”
