Black Dog Of Fate Quotes

#1. You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for something, a version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favorite old shoes.

Ian McEwan

#3. I know. I know, pretty girl. I knew all along.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.

M. Night Shyamalan

#5. The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip and away it flies.

Khaled Hosseini

#6. I HAVE NEVER BEGUN a novel with more misgiving. If I call it a novel it is only because I don't know what else to call it.

W. Somerset Maugham

#7. Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

Gertrude Stein

#8. It was almost funny, to be making this mistake. She was too old for this shit. Crying was for pussies. Making a mess of herself served no purpose at all. Now was the time to toughen up.

Kylie Scott

#9. It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.

Lisa Kleypas

#10. Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!

J.K. Rowling

#11. Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

Brian Eno

#12. I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, 'She sounds like she's grown.'

Jennifer Hudson

#13. That's how the universe worked at times: little things - the tiniest things - could catapult you toward a good life, but you had to be open and you had to be paying attention. Love wasn't purely destined, it relied on hiccups of fate - Aimee Mann, someone else's trip to Peru, a black dog.

Davy Rothbart

#14. People tend to be overconfident in their abilities, and the most overconfident also tend to be the least competent

Steven Gacovino

#15. Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark spots as merely potential light.

Wayne W. Dyer

#16. I'd rather talk to people about their personal spiritual practices or what they believe love is. I'm born to do that. Could I enter into the political realm and dive into that? Sure, but I don't think I would want to do that.

Alanis Morissette