419 Quotes

#1. '419 scams,' named for a clause from the Nigerian penal code, are such a part of the white noise of the digital age that we no longer notice them.

Evan Osnos

#2. He'd learned that when you love someone purely enough, all you wanted was for that person to be happy. (p. 419)

Elin Hilderbrand

#3. Hawaii's own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Colleen Hanabusa

#4. My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.

Marilynne Robinson

#5. Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting.

Frank Langella

#7. It was always 'Cher', I never thought of myself as anything but 'Cher'.

Cher

#8. Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

Dan Harmon

#9. So you want to be a dancer? I asked. I want to dance better than I already do, he said.

Colum McCann

#10. Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church.

Rajneesh

#11. I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman.

Dominique Moceanu

#12. You cannot buy a life well lived!

Shawn King

#13. Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we'll never choose. It's only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.

Carolyn Parkhurst

#14. Not only are the voices in your head real, but they're accurate as well.

Doug Stanhope

#15. When governments murder those who speak the truth, it is time to get new governments.

Diane Duane

#16. As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

Charles Spurgeon

#17. Creativity is like chasing chickens.

Christoph Niemann