9 quotes found
“God don't give out certain.”
“But it works that way if it works.”
“When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.”
“It's a tough life, she'd said. "It's the little things that get us through the day.”
“She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.”
“I liked old time music but what i meant by that was the period from the 1930s through the 60s, nothing before and little after.Performers like fats waller, Sinatra, billie holiday, louis armstrong,...”
“You put a certain amount of effort into stitching a jacket or dress and you get the garment you expect. There's no mystery. But you put a thousand times more effort into raising your child and the ...”
“She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential ...”
“Everything in the past is memory and everything in the future is imagination. Those're both illusions memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that's complete...”