American Wasteland Quotes

#1. He wanted, one day, to be a person who went out of his way to find out what made other people happy.

Matthew Thomas

#2. Becoming serious is not the same thing as approaching the truth

Haruki Murakami

#3. As long as we avoided the real subject, the spell could not be broken. We both slipped naturally into this kind of banter, and it became all the more powerful because neither of us abandoned the charade. We knew what we were doing, but at the same time we pretended not to.

Paul Auster

#4. For much of American history, the worst classes were seen as extrusions of the worst land: scrubby, barren, and swampy wasteland. Home ownership remains today the measure of social mobility.

Nancy Isenberg

#5. If I stay here, I will be just fine. Before I shut the door, I got a box of crackers from the kitchen, so I will be fine.

Kathleen Alcala

#6. When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.

Daniel Boulud

#7. Don't think. Act. We can always revise and revisit once we've acted. But we can accomplish nothing until we act.

Steven Pressfield

#8. At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about.

Elmore Leonard

#9. good decisions aren't always made for healthy reasons.

Maia Szalavitz

#10. It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.

Sarah Dessen

#11. If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves.

Confucius

#12. I didn't know at first that there were two languages in Canada.Ijustthoughtthatthere was oneway tospeak to my father and another to talk to my mother.

Louis St. Laurent

#13. What can I do to improve my personal appearance?" "Start by bathing," her father said.

William Goldman

#14. I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

Neil Kinnock

#15. In the darkest time, we are left alone to face the fate of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita