Top 77 Atwater Quotes
#1. When I was fourteen, I was one of those kids who wore all black because it matched everything. Seriously.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#2. You are not your body. It is just something you wear for a while, because living in the earthplane is infinitely more meaningful and more involved if you are encased in its trappings and subject to its rules.
P.M.H. Atwater
#3. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.
Lee Atwater
#4. We do, in former chairman Lee Atwater's words, offer the party as a big tent, and therefore that message has to be clear. How we do that within the platform, the preamble to the platform or whatnot, that remains to be seen. But that message will have to be articulated with great clarity.
Dan Quayle
#5. In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred,It is a paryer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#6. The question then is, how much are you willing to give?" And I answered, "Anything." A breath later, Zane echoed my response with, "Everything.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#8. White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#9. The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
P. J. O'Rourke
#10. We return to the void we never left, for Mehay is the center of all, and all is the center of nothing.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#11. I have swung on a flying trapeze, explored a glacier, and been hit in the face by a shark's tail while scuba diving. I like to throw myself fully into projects and adventures, which is probably how I managed to publish a book in the first place.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#12. My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.
Lee Atwater
#16. I work during the days and have night classes on Wednesday and Thursday and live with my partner, who is in school during the days and works Wednesday through Saturday nights. Monday and Tuesday are therefore our nights, and we both get our work out of the way so we can actually spend time together.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#17. I ask for trust. It is a lot, I know; it isn't easy to give. But it is all I ask.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#18. Sifting through our thoughts like children going through colored stones
optimistic, because although some were too dark and some were too sharp, many glittered like precious gems.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#19. As it was, they had never even managed a successful first date before their romance had gone the way of Romeo and Juliet's
except that Romeo and Juliet didn't wake up the next day, leave the crypt and say, Now what?
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#20. My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#21. I'm not asking for anything beyond your company in sleep. Just let me rest with the sound of your heartbeat beside mine.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#23. The only way I can protect him now is to make sure he never understands how easy killing can become.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#25. A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#26. You don't have to speak. Words fade," she whispered. "I know that better than anyone. Words are forgotten; they are regretted.Unnecessary. I know.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#27. If we ever have free time, my partner and I are fond of going on walks through the local state forests and parks.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#28. Peaks are a process in which confidence is tested over and over before investors ultimately concede that they were suffering from "hopeful delusion.
Peter Atwater
#29. Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll band. I would say that at least 80 percent of my energy was involved with whatever band I was involved in.
Lee Atwater
#30. Skin like ivory, perfect; A goddess, she
must be.
Slender fingers, unadorned; beautiful
simplicity.
A single teardrop; when did it fall?
Could this goddess be mortal, after all?
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#31. They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#34. Honestly, I get character ideas from the most inane places. Sometimes a song will give me an idea. Sometimes I will just hear a snippet of conversation that ends up having nothing to do with the book that emerges.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#35. ON his way out of the museum Atwater passed Nosworth, arguing in the evening sunshine with a party of negroes, who stood about him in ungainly positions, near in spirit to the Anglo-Saxon attitudes of First Messenger.
Anthony Powell
#36. Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up.
Lee Atwater
#37. By the time I found sleep that night, back in the Hawk's Keep, my throat was tight with too many tears unshed, screams unuttered and prayers whose words I could never seem to find.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#38. I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.
Lee Atwater
#42. Sacrifice of live, sacrifice for love. Fate is gentle and harsh; she gives and she takes.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#43. It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
Lee Atwater
#44. Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.
Lee Atwater
#45. In 2006, when I had come very close to calling my agent and telling him I needed to take a break, NaNoWriMo was where I found my inspiration again.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#46. I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#47. The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life. Whether darkness or light comes next, or some kind of event, be it positive, negative, or somewhere in between, expected or unexpected, the biggest surprise of all is to realize you are still you.
P.M.H. Atwater
#48. The inherent dangers of youth will never change. Volatile hearts and ill-advised flirtations can hardly be compared to the hatred and slaughter of war.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#50. Betia laughed a little, shaking her head. She leaned forward and kissed my cheek as she grabbed my hands and pulled me to my feet. Her brown eyes glittered with a devil-may-care recklessness that warmed me to my toes. If it would make her smile that way, I would dance all night.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#52. Only love can break a heart into so many pieces.
-Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#53. Even if I earn millions, I will probably do the average things, like live in a dorm and work at McDonald's.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#54. I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to. (page 8)
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#56. Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live. (Page 79.)
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#58. Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If you want to know about the history of Spain, write about the history of Spain - fiction or nonfiction. If your fascinated by the old west, maybe your character lives there.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#59. Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the other emotions humans value so much, are the only emotions that can bring pain. Only love can break a heart into so many pieces.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#60. The night is full of mystery. Even when the moon is brightest, secrets hide everywhere. Then the sun rises and its rays cast so many shadows that the day creates more illusion than all the veiled truth of the night.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#61. It's not a secret family like I have a beautiful, gorgeous wife in Tokyo; I have another mom and dad. I'm the kid and I have another mom and dad in Atwater Village, Los Angeles;
John Hodgman
#62. Wandering around the mall and giggling at magazines doesn't interest me. I've never enjoyed shopping. I detest shoes.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#63. Betia kissed my forehead. "I won't leave unless you ask me to. I-" Her lips touched mine chastely. "The future will come. I will be there, if you want me.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#65. Atwater knew - as did everyone at Style, though by some strange unspoken consensus it was never said aloud - that this was the single great informing conflict of the American psyche. The management of insignificance. It was the great syncretic bond of US monoculture.
David Foster Wallace
#66. I do not read newspaper comics unless they happen to be out when I visit my parents, but I follow several online comics, which I check every morning while I drink my coffee and wake up for the day.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#67. Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#68. It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people, with little muscular activity, a habit of excessive eating [particularly fats and sweets] and may be responsible for great damage to health, to say nothing of the purse.
Wilbur Olin Atwater
#69. Only in our darkest hour do we find the light. Humans are destructive by nature. The world is lacking balance. Terrors are beginning to triumph over the simple joys. Stand back and watch, because you're going to be here when we fall.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#70. The only real death that ever occurs is when a dream we cherish dies
P.M.H. Atwater
#71. One of the strangest results of having your name on a book jacket is the proliferation of people who know one narrow aspect of your life and are suddenly surprised to learn there's more.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#72. Every moment of every day, she had fought to keep his face out of her mind, and his voice out of her head, had fought not to hear him say, Just relax, luv. It's all right.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#73. Vultures devour the fallen. Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#75. The truth is, I like to engage with life fully. Given an opportunity to do something I don't often get a chance to do, I feel the need to try it, even if I suspect I'll make a fool out of myself.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#76. I prefer to write about what we refer to as 'the supernatural' versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#77. My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.
Lee Atwater
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