Making Quotes (page 705)

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• work
• mind
• feeling

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. Evan Esar

• faced
• faces

Scratching could not make it worse. . . such a face as yours. William Shakespeare

• change
• father
• new

Attention is love, what we must givechildren, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and thenpick up a tool. Bless whatever you canwith eyes and hands and tongue. If youcan't bless it, get ready to make it new. Marge Piercy

• listener
• habit
• structural

You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen. Don DeLillo

• excuses
• coffee
• love

He took a sip of my father’s weak coffee and spit it back into the mug. "This shit’s like making love in a canoe." "Excuse me?" "It’s fucking near water. David Sedaris

• evening
• spring
• feeling

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

• law
• help
• equality

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers. Susan B. Anthony

• money
• innocent
• enough is enough

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! Charles Dickens

• life
• new
• little

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary? J. M. Barrie

• good
• time
• light

By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, thy bleeding feet we track. Toiling up new Calv'ries ever with the cross that turns not back. New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth. We must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth James Russell Lowell

• people
• hard
• likeness

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. Lois McMaster Bujold

• little
• tried
• try

I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal. Bill Watterson

• life
• age
• world

World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age. William Shakespeare

• hurt
• time
• life

People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously. Tom Robbins

• evening
• enough is enough
• thinking

The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses. Making something isn't good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something. Nick Hornby