Avalon High Quotes

#1. Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.

Pete Hamill

#2. It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.

Don Watson

#3. We kiss. Her hands are freezing on my face, and she tastes like coffee and the smell of the onion is still stuck in my nose, and my lips are all dry from the endless winter. And it's awesome.

John Green

#4. When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, and influenced not incidentally by Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists of Avalon.'

Greg Rucka

#5. It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.

Alice Sebold

#6. A fool suffers, thinking,
"I have children! I have wealth!"
One's self is not even one's own.
How then are children? How then is wealth?

Gautama Buddha

#7. It makes me wonder how many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?

Donald Miller

#8. My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

Sam Abell

#9. Fighting in the name of freedom has too high a price, Merlin sighed as he leaned into his mother's arms.

Dee Marie

#10. Referring to the NFL Players' Association: I have one thing to say about the union: It's like Christopher Columbus. He didn't know where he was going. He didn't know where he was when he got there. He lost two-thirds of his ships along the way. And he did it with someone else's money.

Matt Bahr

#11. Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

Philip Roth

#12. After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

Martin Filler