Absenteed Quotes

#1. I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

Dani Shapiro

#3. I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

Adriana Trigiani

#4. BP wants Twitter to shut down a fake BP account that is mocking the oil company. In response, Twitter wants BP to shut down the oil leak that's ruining the ocean.

Jimmy Fallon

#5. You're the type of guy who always snaps at some point and becomes a mass murderer!

Daniel Clowes

#6. Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power.

D. Todd Christofferson

#7. It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.

Victoria Pratt

#8. Writing is a lifelong disease.

Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.

J.R. Tompkins

#9. I was no good at being a child.

A.S. Byatt

#10. Mathematics speaks to the transcendental, as does this extraordinary friendship. A beautiful book!

James Tanton

#11. I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.

Lawrence Kasdan

#12. The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

Reynolds Price