Canned Quotes (page 913)

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• look
• bored
• reading

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read. More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have. You know, all those incredible geniuses concentrated their lifetimes' experiences in books. It's much better than chattering away to somebody who's never read anything and knows nothing at all. Vivienne Westwood

• broken
• smile
• hope

Yes.’ He drank it all down and then casually threw the glass at the fireplace. I stared at the fragments. ‘You don’t mind, do you?’ He gestured to the broken glass with a sarcastic smile. ‘I surely hope you don’t, because there’s nothing much you can do about it if you do mind. Anne Rice

• the who
• suburb
• than

Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell? Candace Bushnell

• finger
• live
• lives

One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse. Joseph Conrad

• luck
• get
• only

Luck can only get you so far. J. K. Rowling

• impressive
• good
• wonderful

A good first impression can work wonders J. K. Rowling

• what you want
• getting what you want
• needed

You can’t always get what you want. But, if you’re lucky, you get what you need. Justin Bieber

• pain
• him
• giving

Just give him the medicine!" I scream at her. "Give it to him! Who are you, anyway, to decide how much pain he can stand! Suzanne Collins

• getting
• doing
• them

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. Pablo Picasso

• amazing
• evening
• wind

Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• leaving
• dream
• people

How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane? Walker Percy

• people
• life
• change

I am a fragment of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have - I can reflect light into the dark places of this world - into the black places in the hearts of men - and change somethings in some people. Perhaps others may see and do likewise. This is what I am about. This is the meaning of my life. Robert Fulghum

• end
• true
• may

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got. Anne Tyler

• believe
• power
• past

My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you. Jane Austen

• light
• evening
• giving

From where I am," the sun said, "I can see the Soul of the World. It communicates with my soul, and together we cause the plants to grow and the sheep to seek out shade. From where I am--and I'm a long way from the earth--I learned ow to love. I know that if I came even a little bit closer to the earth, everything there would die, and the Soul of the World would no longer exist. So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it light and warmth, and it gives me my reason... Paulo Coelho