Gets Quotes (page 211)

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• thoughts
• look
• morning

I worried that Harold would someday get a new prescription for his glasses and he'd put them on one morning, look me up and down, and say, "Why, gosh, you aren't the girl I thought you were, are you? Amy Tan

• city
• letting
• cities

Don't let the wicked city get you down. Sylvia Plath

• morning
• manly
• bed

When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate. Stephen Fry

• him
• heart
• tough

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I'm too tough for him. Charles Bukowski

• work
• yours
• workings

Plans get you into things but you've got to work your way out. Will Rogers

• telling
• gamblers
• want

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIOYou'll be one. Everybody gets what they want. That's what they always tell me. Ernest Hemingway

• sweat
• i love you
• confused

Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous of your toilet articles, of the drops of sweat on your skin, of the germs in the air you breathe which could get into your blood and poison you. And I am jealous of Komarovsky, as if he were an infectious disease. Someday he will take you away, just as certainly as death will someday separate us. I know this must seem obscure and confused, but I... Boris Pasternak

• drinking
• someone
• getting

Someone ought to get Haymitch a drink. Suzanne Collins

• look
• knows
• get away

You can get away with a lot of shit if it looks like it`s all you know how to do. Henry Rollins

• tree
• learning
• apple

LET'S GIVE THE WORLD TO THE CHILDRENLet's give the world to the children just for one daylike a balloon in bright and striking colours to play withlet them play singing among the starslet's give the world to the childrenlike a huge apple like a warm loaf of breadat least for one day let them have enoughlet's give the world to the childrenat least for one day let the world learn friendshipchildren will get the world from our handsthey'll plant immortal trees Nazim Hikmet

• road
• breathing
• sucks

Angel-bright, life-in-death; get off the road, don't suck my breath. Harper Lee

• daughter
• lies
• she

Jamie felt as though her heart would literally take flight from her crest. Damn her and her mouth. “Nick, I was sort of exaggerating about how nasty I was going to act of the plane. Why can’t we just leave Fleas with Max and get going?” “She’s lying, Nick,” Max said. “You don’t do things her way and she turns into Satan’s daughter. Janet Evanovich

• true
• needing
• get

If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal. Terry Eagleton

• look
• writing
• you me

Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't try". That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet out of it. Charles Bukowski

• work
• people
• camera

I do, however, get along fine with apes and I have worked sack of potatoes in front of the camera. Trainers tell me they like my voice and that because I treat them as people they like me. Well, it’s easy to do, since some of them are people and easier to work with than some—people, I mean actors. Vincent Price