1984 Sparknotes Quotes

#1. When I was a kid I went and saw Bill Cosby with my dad, and I remember sitting there and laughing so hard.

Dave Coulier

#2. What kind of believer are you? Do you believe IN God?. Or do you believe God? There is a major distinction. People who believe in God, simply acknowledge the existence of a Higher Power. People who believe God believe Him enough to do what He says.

Robert G. Allen

#3. I do not know whether the casual readers of novels is acquainted with an anatomical curiosity known as the femoral artery; without too much medical meandering, although you might suppose that cutting a man's throat would be the fastest way to slaughter him, a good jab to the thigh will do.

Lyndsay Faye

#4. The pushback I get is, 'He's a hedge fund guy.' Full stop. Some places, that can be a badge of honor. In others, it's almost a term of derision.

Edward Lampert

#5. All roads lead to where you are, right now.

Robin Spielberg

#6. More than 1 billion people do not have access to sufficient water to meet their basic sanitation needs.

Jane B. Reece

#7. Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness

Maria Montessori

#8. Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.

Lisa Unger

#9. Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#10. Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' on what? On fire?

Rita Rudner

#11. Well, maybe I'm not so emotionally dysfunctional after all.

Ian Kelsey

#12. When I was 20 or 21, I didn't ... I won't say care about anything, but you're like in your own world - you made something that you always wanted to do, and then you kind of think only about your family and yourself.

Thierry Henry

#13. "if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental hospital how do you expect to be able to live 'out in the world'?" How indeed?

Janet Frame