Abranda Phillips Quotes

#1. Denial is an ugly thing.

Nicholas Sparks

#2. A preoccupation with theory has been a defensive response by academic biographers in this country, I submit, to the condescension of traditional humanists and social scientists pervading higher education for many years.

David Levering Lewis

#3. Never while anything is left of me shall this ... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike.

John Muir

#4. We ought to know about our culinary past. Food and identity is terribly important ... I don't mean we should go out and eat historic dishes, but we should know what makes us different ... self-confident nations have that sense of where they come from.

Tom Jaine

#5. Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

Gail Sheehy

#6. Georgie and Neal were bad at a lot of things, but they were good at being on each other's side.

Rainbow Rowell

#7. Hatred in your heart for others is always weakness.

Habib Ali Al-Jifri

#8. I could always write in a wide variety. My moods change same as reader's moods change. I really do love writing the historicals, however, but if that's all I did I would go crazy, same with any of the other kinds of books. I need variety.

Joe R. Lansdale

#9. It is better to get lost in the pages of book than anywhere else.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock and roll.

Joan Jett

#11. If we don't find out where we are, we won't ever escape," she said, handing him the sheet of paper. "Wait here. I'll be right back." She jogged off, skirt swishing.

Brandon Sanderson

#12. Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.

Matthew Henry

#13. By holiday time, Buena Vista Street felt like Bedford Falls, with its vintage lights and decorations, and a classic Santa Claus listening to children's holiday wishes at Elias & Co. Cocoa clutching---Guests in scarves and parkas filled the streets and shops.

Leslie Le Mon

#14. If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

Toni Morrison