Anything Quotes (page 167)

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• reading
• experience
• destroying

...don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience... Louise Erdrich

• suits
• design
• business

It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and blazers, for anything except glorified sweatsuits, and they tried to apologize for dressing us like overaged Teletubbies by silk-screening daisies on the tops. Jennifer Weiner

• may
• saying
• tris

I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again. John Steinbeck

• eyes
• little
• his

I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind? J. M. Coetzee

• love
• saying
• lovely

Never say love is "like" anything... It isn't. Michael Chabon

• likely
• like
• ever

Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this. Robert Penn Warren

• love
• freedom
• places

To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom. Toni Morrison

• life
• baby
• life lesson

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything. Frank Sinatra

• eyes
• universe
• eye

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay. Douglas Adams

• family
• faith
• wills

The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out. Bob Dylan

• art
• touching
• fear

Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you. Evelyn Waugh

• justice
• wellness
• rich

Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the right of associating for the sale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well bind him to a master, or ascribe him to the soil. William C. Bryant

• pride
• fruit
• humble

When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no fruit to offer, remains erect. But when the tree is laden with fruit, it bends down. If you are all pride and ego, then nobody will be able to get anything worthwhile from you. When you have genuine humility, it is a sign that you have something to offer to mankind. Sri Chinmoy

• my everything
• hell
• friends

Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time didn't mean anything nothing had form but I was still me, you know? And I was warm and I was loved and I was finished. Complete. I don't understand about theology or dimensions, or any of it, really but I think I was in heaven. And now I'm not. I was torn out of there. Pulled out by my friends. Everything here is hard, and bright, and violent. Everything I feel, everything I touch this is... Joss Whedon

• people
• sometimes
• liked

I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am--I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything. J. D. Salinger