537 quotes found
“I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.”
“I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual...”
“Worn over the mans head like a deranged bank robber is a pair of pink cotton panties.”
“One night I dreamed a dream.I was walking along the beach with my Lord. Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life. For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand, one belonging ...”
“Nabir came out to drive the children away, but she stopped him. "I like to be friendly she said." "But they are not your friends," said Nabir. "You don't know them." "Respect first," Nabir would ha...”
“In the 1991 movie City Slickers, Jack Palance gives Billy Crystal some profoundly simple advice. When Crystal asks him the secret of life, Palance holds up a forefinger, answers with a single word:...”
“And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends.”
“Between one stride and the next, the herd of reindeer faded away. She felt a last few ghosts go with her, shoulder on shoulder, and then they too were gone and she was back, alone, in the world of ...”
“We think we can control our lives, but our lives control us. And everything that touches our lives controls us. People have less power than they think they do. It's just the reactions we control.”
“What's the matter?" asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered fact."Whywhy," said Elizabeth Ann, "I don't know what I am at all. If I'm second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-gr...”
“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....”
“We fail in the work of grace and love when there is too much of us and not enough of God.”
“Men with high baseline levels of testosterone marry less frequently, have more adulterous affairs, commit more spousal abuse, and divorce more often.”
“I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.I u...”
“There are a couple of reasons why I take comfort in being able to put all this in my own vernacular and present it to you. For one thing, because then I'm not completely alone with it. And for anot...”
“Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given year. That means millions of Americans are totally batshit.but having perused the various tests ...”
“The way you see yourself and others will significantly impact your ability to give your time, treasure or talents.”
“Secrets have an unfortunate way of spreading far beyond those they were intended for.”
“Fukuyamas thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the level of the cultural unconscious. It should be remembered,...”
“Before I had kids, I was one of those people who insisted my future children wouldnt need the crutches of ketchup, butter and ranch dressing to eat their food. Then I had kids. Then I became one of...”
