Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I don't want my kids to have to walk through a world where they have to constantly explain who they are and who their family is.
The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.
I was as huge Spider-Man fan as a kid, but I really liked The Defenders a lot. I was also a big Moon Knight fan for some reason.
When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult.
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.
Get me a gun. If I don't go into labor soon, I'm going to shoot myself. And pass the gravy. Pass it now." Valerie - To the Nines
Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces our reality.
Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.
My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.
It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.
The island is named Oooguruk, an Inupiaq word meaning 'bearded seal,' an animal plentiful on the shores of Alaska's North Slope.
I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.
The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in the text.
Hefty? I'd railed to Peter, waving the clipping for emphasis. Hefty? For the record 'Hefty' is a trash bag. I'm festively plump.
I love it when people ask if Jennifer Weiner is a pen name. Um, if I wanted a pen name I could have done a LOT better than this!
Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who's late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.
I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing.
If you go to places like YouTube, it's a cesspool, and a lot of the comments are really horrifying and misogynist and harassing.
But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.
TV can play a role in delivering that emotion as well as the obvious ability to reach a lot of people quickly with that message.
When people are entering a high-stress period, they don't sleep and don't exercise, but in fact, it should be just the opposite.
I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.
IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie.
Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.
We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.
Seamless, careful, by-the-book performance provides no evidence of what the spider's thinking about the fly enmeshed in its web.
Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.
Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.
I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.
I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.
A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives.
I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.
We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.