Got Quotes (page 160)

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• light
• kids
• him

I paused for a light at Hamilton and TWlfth and noticed the Nissan was running rough at idle. Two blocks later it backfired and stalled. I coaxed it into the center of the city. Ffft, ffft, ffft, KAPOW! Ffft, ffft, ffft, KAPOW! A Trans Am pulled up next to me at a light. The Trans Am was filled with high school kids. One of them stuck his head out of the passenger-side window. "Hey lady," he said. "Sounds like you got a fartmobile." I flipped him an Italian goodwill gesture and pulled the... Janet Evanovich

• mind
• mindfulness
• manly

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with. Cormac McCarthy

• mother
• my mother
• time

Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?"My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me sweetly, like one intelligent, mature person with another. It's almost three in the afternoon." I'm writing a novel," I said. "I haven't got time to change into this and change into that. Sylvia Plath

• here
• coin
• way

I got here the same way the coin did. Cormac McCarthy

• kids
• you me
• kidding

You have got to be kidding me. James Wilson

• beautiful
• believe
• all alone

The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look strange because you have no teeth. It was enough to be called a witch. If it came to that, the book never gave you the evidence of anything. It talked about "a handsome prince"... was he really, or was it just because he was a prince that people called handsome? As for "a girl who was as beautiful as the day was long"... well, which day? In midwinter it hardly ever got light!... Terry Prachett

• girl
• girls
• little

Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all. Joan Jett

• prayer
• saying
• greek

Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue. Tom Robbins

• candy
• car
• climbing

If you're not a race driver, stay the hell home. Don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Get the hell out of the race car if you've got feathers on your legs or butt. Put a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat that candy ass. Dale Earnhardt

• she
• die
• wellness

...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well. Louisa May Alcott

• right now
• rights
• causing

I know I got to be right now. Cause I can't get much wronger Kanye West

• ocean
• walking
• magic

I’ve got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe. Maya Angelou

• door
• bad
• listeners

And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad. Ellen DeGeneres

• life
• lost
• counting

In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts Hubert H. Humphrey

• bright
• caring
• flower

I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses. Charlotte Bronte