Doing Quotes (page 521)

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• thinking
• father
• gorgeous

Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?"I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father."Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have. Madeleine L'Engle

• son
• princess
• king

Listen to me. I did not wish to be summoned by your Princess. Summoned, I did not wish to come. But having been summoned, and having come, I mean to give a good account of myself. That’s how I was taught by my father, and the men of his age who slew Kings and swept away not merely Governments but whole Systems of Thought, like Khans of the Mind. I would have my son in Boston know of my doings, and be proud of them, and carry my ways forward to another generation on another continent. Any... Neal Stephenson

• life
• powerful
• understanding

...if we were to name the most powerful assumption of all, which leads one on and on in an attempt to understand life, it is that all things are made of atoms, and that everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jigglings and wigglings of atoms. Richard P. Feynman

• helpful
• help
• positive

My position was a common one; I wanted to do the right thing but could not help regretting the damnable expense. Robertson Davies

• love
• manly
• without you

I do love you. I’d be one miserable and lonesome man without you around. Edward Abbey

• words
• up
• without

And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation? J. R. R. Tolkien

• freedom
• law
• particular

Freedom is of no use without taste and without the ordinary competence to follow the particular laws of what we have been given to do. Flannery O'Connor

• old
• love
• him

And quite right too. Thinking back, actually, 'self-infatuation' strikes me as a rather ill-chosen word. It isn't so much that I like or love myself. Rather, I'm sentimental about myself. (I say, is this normal for someone my age?) What do I think of Charles Highway? I think: 'Charles Highway? Oh, I like him. Yes, I've got a soft spot for old Charles. He's all right is Charlie. Chuck's ... okay. Martin Amis

• caring
• hippie
• i do care

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock] Billie Joe Armstrong

• best
• eyes
• bed

When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it George R. R. Martin

• passion
• grandly
• nothing

A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. Oscar Wilde

• uses
• started
• used

Start where you are, use what you have, and do what you can. Arthur Ashe

• work
• door
• saying

If I want to say no, I will, but for the right reasons. If I want to say yes, I will, but for the right reasons. Leave the consequences. Leave the finale. Leave the grand statements. The simplicity of feeling should not be taxed. I can't work out what this will cost or what either of us owe. The admission charge is never on the door, but you are open and I want to enter. Let me in. You do. Jeanette Winterson

• feeling
• world
• empty

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing. Bram Stoker

• all alone
• lesson
• thoughts

I had a moment to visualize Larry out in the dark all alone, unarmed except for his cross. The thought made my skin cold. I opened my mouth to yell at him and closed it. Never dress anyone down in public unless it's an object lesson. I said, "Any tracks?" I gave myself a dozen brownie points for yelling."Do I look like Tonto? Beside the ground is just grass and it's been so dry lately. I don't think there'd be any tracks. Laurell K. Hamilton