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Doing You Quotes (page 133)

Bernard Cornwell quote: "Who do you serve? Lanferelle asked."
Who do you serve? Lanferelle asked. Bernard Cornwell
What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is raised, "What kind of God do you believe in?" my answer is easy: "I believe in a magnificent God. Elizabeth Gilbert
Nancy Reagan quote: "A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize..."
A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is. Nancy Reagan
Tom Stoppard quote: "Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go..."
Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn. Tom Stoppard
Margaret Atwood quote: "EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living..."
EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play? Margaret Atwood
Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both. Mark Helprin
Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love. We are running to contemplate its vast green field. Do you want to come with us? Rumi
I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded? Sherman Alexie
There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die. Hunter S. Thompson
Jodi Picoult quote: "I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is..."
I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own? Jodi Picoult
Lloyd Alexander quote: "Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time..."
Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are. Lloyd Alexander
The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing? to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from? my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. C. S. Lewis
He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown, leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" - he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose - "distracting? Suzanne Collins
Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths. Double, triple, quadruple the population. Films and radios, magazines, books levelled down to a sort of paste pudding norm, do you follow me? Ray Bradbury
The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full tonight. So we go and the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think about time and space, makes me take measure of myself: one iota pondering heaven. Thus we sit, I thinking how grateful I am for the moon’s perfect beauty and also, oh! How rich it is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up into my face. As... Mary Oliver

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