Bloodshot 2020 Quotes

#1. I don't think of myself as a critic at all. I'm a reviewer and essayist. I mainly hope to share with others my pleasure in the books and authors I write about, though sometimes I do need to cavil and point out shortcomings.

Michael Dirda

#2. I feel old and finished. I'm nearly thirty now.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#3. Gottman has found, in fact, that the presence of contempt in a marriage can even predict such things as how many colds a husband or a wife gets; in other words, having someone you love express contempt toward you is so stressful that it begins to affect the functioning of your immune system.

Malcolm Gladwell

#4. I feel my soul as vast as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers; my chest has the power to expand to infinity. I was made to give and they prescribe for me the humility of the cripple.

Frantz Fanon

#5. I'm sick of everyone thinking I'm Miss Goody Two-shoes, with my perfect grades, and days of the week panties. You know what? I have my Wednesdays on today - it's Saturday - and that's a pretty sad way of rebelling, huh?

Kendall Ryan

#6. Fairy-tales are nice.

Syd Barrett

#7. Mitch thought she looked like an angel might - if the angel had fallen very hard into a very naughty position.

Lauren Stewart

#8. Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna.

Francois Mauriac

#9. Don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in
the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy
man.

Paulo Coelho

#10. Religions centered on the worship of a male God create "moods" and "motivations" that keep women in a state of psychological dependence on men and male authority, while at the same legitimating the political and social authority of fathers and sons in the institutions of society.

Carol P. Christ