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Thing Quotes (page 689)

Garrison Keillor quote: "The most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that."
The most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that. Garrison Keillor
There are few things more abrasive to the human spirit, even in Patagonia, than someone standing behind you chomping and sucking ice cubes. Paul Theroux
GOING TO WALDENIt isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen. The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water. Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and think me half a fool. To miss a day away in the cool country. Maybe. But in a book I read and cherish, Going to Walden is not so easy a thing. As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult.... Mary Oliver
The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'. E. E. Cummings
But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born. Jeffrey Eugenides
And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash. Carl Sandburg
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that..."
and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of any other set of beings in the world. The folly of the means they often employ is only to be equalled by the folly of what they have in view. Jane Austen
A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them. P. G. Wodehouse
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of..."
one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's. Laurell K. Hamilton
The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it. Ursula K. Le Guin
George Bernard Shaw quote: "But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong..."
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. George Bernard Shaw
It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone. Poppy Z. Brite
Don DeLillo quote: "Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now..."
Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn. Don DeLillo
I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old and young, innocent and guilty, those who die together and those who die alone. I'm in cars and boats and planes; in hospitals and forests and abbatoirs. For some folks death is a release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them. Neil Gaiman

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