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Knowing Quotes (page 526)

Tell me–how old are you, Reuben? I'm thirty-eight. How is that for total honesty? Do you know many women who volunteer they're thirty-eight? Anne Rice
Never was a Family more insistent on learning one another’s movements than were the Bunch. All of them volubly knew, or indignantly desired to know, where all the others had been every minute of the week. Sinclair Lewis
Frank Herbert quote: "I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself,” Paul..."
I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself,” Paul said. “I know this. Every man should have such an auditor. Frank Herbert
Charlaine Harris quote: "You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but..."
You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me. Charlaine Harris
You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing. Haruki Murakami
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time. John Steinbeck
Joss Whedon quote: "Buffy: Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you!..."
Buffy: Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you. Angel: I know the feeling. Joss Whedon
What did you do to this?' he asked in a horrorstruck voice. 'It didn't want to come out of the dashboard.' 'So you felt the need to torture it?' 'You know how I am with tools. No pain was inflicted intentionally.' He shook his head, his face a mask of faux tragedy. 'You killed it. Stephenie Meyer
I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way.- The Phantom Stranger ('Footsteps', secret origins no 10) Alan Moore
The power of words is awful, Frida. Sometimes I want to bury my typewriter in a box of quilts. The radio makes everything worse, because of the knack for amplifying dull sounds. Any two words spoken in haste might become law of the land. But you never know which two. You see why I won't talk to newsmen. Barbara Kingsolver
Intensity of experience is what we're looking for, I think. We know we won't find it at home any more, but there's always the hope that we'll find it abroad David Lodge
I’m assuming you’re as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin. No. I’m not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child. (silence) This is why I don’t make so many jokes. I never know when is good. Joss Whedon
But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry. W. H. Auden
He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him? Arthur Schopenhauer
[on her Amish friends]I do know this family has borne losses and grief, just like the rest of us. But if they are generally content, must such a life inevitably be dismissed as mythical, or else merely quaint? ... It sounds like a community type that went extinct a generation ago. But it didn't, not completely. If a self-sufficient farming community has survived here, it remains a possibility elsewhere. Barbara Kingsolver

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