253 Quotes

#1. I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)

Dorothy Allison

#2. We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.

Peter T. King

#3. I suppose my greatest disappointment has been realizing my father, like Joseph and Brigham before him, tried to shroud his passions in the mantle of religion. He used God to defend his adultery.
Ann Eliza Young, page 253

David Ebershoff

#4. God was singing through this little man to all the world.

Peter Shaffer

#5. Would you have a friend who talks to you the way you talk to yourself?

Callie Khouri

#6. My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

Fred Durst

#7. C'mon, Amory. Your romance is over
You don't know how true you spoke. No idea. 'At's the whole trouble

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. Airplanes are like women - pick what you like and try to get it away from the guy who has it, then dress it out to the limit of your wallet and taste.

Stephen Coonts

#9. There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. Mike and I both stared at Edward with our mouths hanging open.

Stephenie Meyer

#11. Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.

Arthur Christiansen

#12. Powerful Leaders intentionally pursue their vocation of who they are not a career of what they do; what's calling you?

Michael Walker

#13. He carries around a notebook where he keeps a list of suspects and motives so the police will have leads if he ever turns up murdered

Stephanie Tromly

#14. Hands on her shoulders, I noted. Fast, but not too fast or it's going to be over, fast. Keep your grunting to a minimum.

John Green

#15. Ciro, who loved machinery and its design, thought the tanks were ugly. What beauty could be found in something that was created with the sole purpose of destruction?

Adriana Trigiani