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In ten minutes they will have arrived on campus. George will have to be George; the George they have named and will recognise. So now he consciously applies himself to thinking their thoughts, getting into their mood. With the skill of a veteran, he rapidly puts on the psychological makeup for this role he must play. Christopher Isherwood
Gertrude Stein quote: "Whenever you get there, there is no there there."
Whenever you get there, there is no there there. Gertrude Stein
In trying to make the slave experience intimate, I hoped the sense of things being both under control and out of control would be persuasive throughout; that the order and quietitude of every day life would be violently disrupted by the chaos of the needy dead; that the herculean effort to forget would be threatened by memory desperate to stay alive. To render enslavement as a personal experience, language must first get out of the way. Toni Morrison
They're all tossers, aren't they, men like Martin. They think women are like fucking laptops or whatever, like, my old one's knackered and anyway, you can get ones that are slimmer and do more stuff now. Nick Hornby
Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie. J. R. R. Tolkien
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the..."
I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once. Laurell K. Hamilton
My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you. Lance Armstrong
Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his way of fantastic grace, and the charm of the unreal. His muse had moods of terrible laughter. Behind his grotesques there seemed to lurk some curious philosoph? Oscar Wilde
Taylor Swift quote: "Sophistication isn't what you wear, or who you know, Or..."
Sophistication isn't what you wear, or who you know, Or pushing people down to get you where you wanna go. Taylor Swift
There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world. Oscar Hammerstein II
Sacrifice , you made one. i made one .we all make them . but you were angry over yours . you kept thinking about what you lost . you didn't get it . sacrifice is a part of life . it's supposed to be . it's not something to regret . it's something to aspire to. Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom quote: "the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets."
the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets. Mitch Albom
Frank O'Hara quote: "oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much..."
oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much Frank O'Hara
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of..."
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up. Henry David Thoreau
While leaning over the toilet getting up his nerve, he thought that the moment before making yourself throw up must be very like the instant before suicide. You are almost content to bear the sickening headache and the torment in your stomach rather than go through that moment. But the prospect of relief made you foolhardy and you jammed your finger down your throat. John Clellon Holmes

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