201 quotes found
“Its no secret that kids thrive when they have meaningful conversations with caring adults. But in our busy world, its not easy to find ways to make this happen, so I developed READ TOGETHER/DO TOGE...”
“Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done.”
“The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”
“Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.”
“And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.”
“DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities”
“Spend time with your kids and try to answer all their questions, it will make your life challenging.”
“Time and space are awash here.”
“The music of life would be mute if the chords of memory were snapped asunder.”
“I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.”
“Stone is a primal matter, inhuman in its duration. Yet despite its incalculable temporality, the lithic is not some vast and alien outside. A limit-breaching intimacy persistently unfolds. Hurl a r...”
“Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs.”
“It always has been and always will be the same. The old folk of our grandfathers' young days sang a song bearing exactly the same burden; and the young folk of to-day will drone out precisely simil...”
“Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?”
“hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!”
“As long as you're still walking with the demons of hell! You'll never have the time to slow down to see the angels of heaven behind you.”
“I look in the glass sometimes at my two long, cylindrical bags (so picturesquely rugged about the knees), my stand-up collar and billycock hat, and wonder what right I have to go about making God's...”
“... honesty is like seeing a crackhead up close: it aint that fucking attractive.”
“A solemn sadness reigns. A great peace is around us. In its light our cares of the working day grow small and trivial, and bread and cheeseay, and even kissesdo not seem the only things worth striv...”
“Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?”
