Top 100 Bowen's Quotes
#1. Bad form, Regin! Wrong car."
Immediately after, the house shook again. "Oh, much better!" Nix assured them. "That was Bowen's!
Kresley Cole
#2. A Bowen, in the first place, made Bowen's Court. Since then, with a rather alarming sureness, Bowen's Court has made all the succeeding Bowens.
Elizabeth Bowen
#3. I was perfect," I said. "And I didn't even know."
"No," he whispered into my ear. "No, no. Perfect isn't real." I took a deep shaky breath and the feel of his strong arms around me began to feel steadying. "There's no more perfect, Callahan. Now there's only really damned good.
Sarina Bowen
#4. There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.
Julie Bowen
#5. Everyone has a time when they need a lot more than they can give. It doesn't matter how much you hate it. It's just true.
Sarina Bowen
#6. It's not like I planned to have a heart attack, you know? I wasn't thinking to myself, 'Hmm, you know what James? Today seems like the perfect afternoon for a myocardial infarction.
John Bowen
#7. It's no accident that I'd named my guitar after a boy. He was as close to a boyfriend as I was likely to get.
Sarina Bowen
#8. looked up. "Maybe that will jog someone's memory and make them come
Rhys Bowen
#9. God's original purpose for government was to punish the evil and reward the good.
William R. Bowen
#10. The best part of my job is that it really isn't a job at all, it's a labour of love. Every night is different, the people that you work with are all tremendous individuals.
Joe Bowen
#11. To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
A. J. Bowen
#12. Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed from us because it is too bad to be told.
Elizabeth Bowen
#13. It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.
Julie Bowen
#14. There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.
Elizabeth Bowen
#15. Why would you complicate our friendship?" I whispered. "Like it's so simple now?" He countered.
Sarina Bowen
#16. I frequently do drive carpool in the clothes I slept in, because it's impossible to get three children out the door with lunches packed and all that stuff and have a do.
Julie Bowen
#17. Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
Elizabeth Bowen
#18. Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.
Elizabeth Bowen
#19. That's not the way it is, Callahan." I grabbed her hands and rolled her closer to me, until our knees touched. "The thing is, we're all fragile. It's just that most of our friends are lucky enough not to know it yet.
Sarina Bowen
#20. I just try to be as honest and open as possible with all my music, whether it's live shows or the studio.
Wade Bowen
#21. So like a man, to think there's safety among yet more men.
Lila Bowen
#22. When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.
Clare Bowen
#23. It was harder to get my driver's license than to get pregnant and give birth.
Julie Bowen
#24. He kissed me between the shoulder blades. "Getting along together was never the problem with you and me," he said. "We're both easy. It's just the rest of the world that's hard.
Sarina Bowen
#25. I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that's a lie!
Julie Bowen
#26. She's staring at me like she wants to rip off my clothes. Or just rip something. I'm not quite sure which.
Sarina Bowen
#27. I'm not sure what's left of privacy right now, but whatever is left, I want to keep it for a while.
Bowen Greenwood
#28. It seemed to her that while people were very happy, individual persons were surely damned. So, she shrank from that specious mystery the individual throws about himself, from Anna's smiles, from Lilian's tomorrows, from the shut-in room, the turned-in heart.
Elizabeth Bowen
#29. The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance
due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful
and possibly the only
help that can be given.
Elizabeth Bowen
#30. Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Elizabeth Bowen
#31. I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel's accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields.
Jeremy Bowen
#33. The rain it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella;
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust hath the just's umbrella.
Charles Bowen
#34. Bourbon." "You're putting bourbon in iced tea?" "Putting bourbon in sweet tea, man. That's my Truth Serum. You gonna love it." "Sweet tea and bourbon? Damn, I think I love it already," Levi said. Bowen
Tiffany Reisz
#35. I'm in total celebrity denial in general, but there's awareness that probably if somebody has met you, they might go and tell somebody. I just would rather have the word on the street stay at a neutral, not like, "She shows up in a ball gown," but "She seemed nice." That's fine.
Julie Bowen
#36. I think back to the Modern Family pilot when we didn't know that Julie Bowen had a spotty party girl past, but that's something that we layered in, throughout the first season. That's just part of the fun of series television. You get to discover these things.
Jason Winer
#37. Before we can consider which way to go from where we are, we must agree on where we want to end up. If our desire is to become happy, then let's begin by having a realistic understanding of what it means to be happy.
Will Bowen
#38. I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and that it's the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other that keeps our intercourse from utter banaility.
Elizabeth Bowen
#39. Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.
Elizabeth Bowen
#40. Go nuts, girlfriend." He grins, making his face instantly more familiar. "I told 'em we met when we were both looking after Jamie. But I skipped the part about taking off my pants and daring you to find out if Wesley's massage chair would turn my dick into a real-life vibrator.
Sarina Bowen
#41. It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without gin worth living?
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
#42. One's sentiments
call them that
one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power.
Elizabeth Bowen
#43. You're not competing for him, dumbass. He's already yours.
Sarina Bowen
#44. And then there's the perverse joy of subtly working in references to marathon training in daily life, say at the post office or while waiting outside my first-graders' classrooms at the end of the school day.
Sarah Bowen Shea
#45. What's your favorite place to visit?" He absently answered, "Wherever you are."
"Bowen, five things about you can't all be about me."
But you're the only good thing that I've got.
Kresley Cole
#46. It's been...interesting."
"Aw." He actually rolled his eyes. "Interesting? That's the review I get? I'm pretty sure the earth moved."
"Well..." My cheeks heated. "You're the farmer. It's your job to notice the earth.
Sarina Bowen
#47. Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband.
Elizabeth Bowen
#48. I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing.
Jeff Bowen
#49. Audrey's appearance in my home had the same effect on my libido that springtime had on the deer living on our hilltop.
Sarina Bowen
#50. I don't know what's come over this place,' Maud stated. 'However, the Lord did, so in despair He showed me what I had better do.'
'And did the Lord suggest your sticking up your father for ten shillings?'
'No, I thought of that,' said Maud, not turning a hair.
Elizabeth Bowen
#51. It's been a long time since I dared to get close to anyone, and I didn't realize letting down my guard could ache like this. I'm facedown in the ocean, and she's the lifeboat.
Sarina Bowen
#52. As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing, because otherwise it will look like it's not real.
Clare Bowen
#53. There's a post-it note stuck on one of the padded arms. I snatch it up and skim Wes's familiar chicken-scratch scrawl. Dude at the store said this one will be better for our backs. Ten different massage settings. We should use it on our balls and see if it doubles as a sex toy. Fingers crossed.
Sarina Bowen
#54. The one sentence I regret? "Let's watch some porn.
Sarina Bowen
#55. The process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.
Elizabeth Bowen
#56. I'm bisexual, and it's not just a physical connection I feel with Wes.
Sarina Bowen
#57. The novelist's
any writer's
object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.
Elizabeth Bowen
#58. The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
Elizabeth Bowen
#59. It is more difficult ... to rule the King's favorites than for the favorites to rule the King.
Marjorie Bowen
#60. There's an old saying that a wise man is someone who doesn't grieve for the things which he doesn't have but is grateful for the good things that he does have.
James Bowen
#61. One should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.
Elizabeth Bowen
#62. When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized me, a mood orseason of Nature's penetrated me, history suddenly appeared to me in some tiny act, or a face had begun to haunt me before I glanced at it.
Elizabeth Bowen
#63. Because a shadow was a thing that defined itself, and Nettie didn't have to fit anyone else's shape.
Lila Bowen
#64. Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.
Elizabeth Bowen
#65. That's when he finally turns his head to look at me. As he rubs himself, he swallows, and I see his Adam's apple bob roughly. "I need to know.
Sarina Bowen
#66. I live alone with my one dog and they say it like it's a sad, it's a terrible thing. This woman lives alone with her two cats.
Julie Bowen
#67. I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes.
Julie Bowen
#68. Are you really an orphan?
Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you?
No, not at present, but I suppose it's a thing one is bound to be.
Elizabeth Bowen
#69. My dick and I reached an understanding." "Yeah? And what's that?" I ask curiously. He shrugs. "We both like you.
Sarina Bowen
#70. There's a subtext, you know, 'Honey, I'm home' really means, 'take off your clothes and fuck me."
"I never knew that.
Sarina Bowen
#71. I think it's pretty common for people to get excited when they meet somebody that they know from the media.
Julie Bowen
#72. But there's no end to what's been said, and I'll be a party to nothing. I was born with my mouth shut:those with their mouths open do nothing but start trouble and catch flies.
Elizabeth Bowen
#73. Fastow had found someone trusting and pliable.
Fastow wanted a pupet, Bowen concluded, and he already controlled Ben Glisan's strings.
p.338
Kurt Eichenwald
#74. Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.
Clare Bowen
#75. He's already one up on me. He's been on the receiving end of a couple of Hottie's kisses.
I've got nothing. It's the first time I've ever been jealous of my dog.
Sarina Bowen
#76. Our mouths meet in another kiss. Soft this time. Agonizingly slow. It's not enough. I'll stop it soon, any second now, but not yet. Not until he gives me more.
Sarina Bowen
#77. When his tongue touches mine I damn near keel over. I have to grab the front of his shirt and bunch it between my fingers to keep from being swept away by the storm. Not the storm that's lighting up the sky, but the one that's roaring inside me.
Sarina Bowen
#78. What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually - our sense of personality is a sense of outrage ...
Elizabeth Bowen
#79. She was a scrap of a widow, ever so plucky, just back from China, with damp little hands, a husky voice, and defective tear-ducts that gave her eyes always rather a swimmy look. She had a prostrated way of looking up at you, and that fluffy, bird's-nesty hair that hairpins get lost in.
Elizabeth Bowen
#80. Summer's a total cocktease." He shrugs, repeating himself. "It always ends." He's right about that. Summer always ends.
Sarina Bowen
#81. But before we get started, does anyone, uh, have any questions for me?" There's a long silence. Finally, Barrie raises his hand, and I hold my breath as I wait for his question. "Will Ryan Wesley come to one of our games?
Sarina Bowen
#83. I'm not allowed to talk to your teammates?"
"Talk all you want. But flirting ain't allowed, honey."
Seriously? "I'll flirt with whomever I want," I shoot back.
"Aw, you really think that?" He smiles. "That's so sweet.
Sarina Bowen
#84. It's hard to admit you're just in someone's periphery when you imagined you were closer to the center of their world.
Sarina Bowen
#85. Lark: You got a phone??? I love the selfie.
Zach: I did. I've joined the 21st Century.
Lark: Does this mean you'll send me a dick pic later?
Zach: Let's not get carried away.
Sarina Bowen
#86. A typical race morning usually starts out looking like a scene from a zombie movie: individuals or pairs of people walking down a deserted street, all headed in the same direction ... Inevitably, regardless of the weather, U2's "Beautiful Day" streams out of loudspeakers.
Sarah Bowen Shea
#87. Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.
Elizabeth Bowen
#88. The furniture would have missed you?
Furniture's knowing all right. Not much gets past the things in a room, I daresay, and chairs and tables don't go to the grave so soon. Every time I take the soft cloth to that stuff in the drawingroom, I could say, 'Well, you know a bit more'.
Elizabeth Bowen
#89. Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality.
Elizabeth Bowen
#91. One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.
Elizabeth Bowen
#92. Humans are interdependent by choice. You have a burden of guilt, and it's brave of you to want to carry it yourself. But it's foolish not to let others help you. Give some of it away to your parents and your friends. And when they need your help, you'll be strong enough to support them, too.
Sarina Bowen
#93. Jesus. Good thing he's not a traffic cop, because he's sending enough mixed signals to cause a ten-car pileup.
Sarina Bowen
#94. What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs.
Stuart Bowen
#95. I won't say anything, but you should tell them. It's not weakness to admit you're not perfect.
Jess Bowen
#96. Meanwhile, we blew each other's minds (and other parts) in our new bedroom last night. Then we passed out and slept for nine hours in our brand new king-sized bed.
Sarina Bowen
#98. I've followed Brenda Bowen as she's moved from Henry Holt to Scholastic to Simon and Schuster to Hyperion and to HarperCollins. I have complete confidence that Brenda always knows the right questions to ask. I'm not sure another editor would be able to do that.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#99. A thrill of something he couldn't quite identify shot through Noah's gut. He wondered briefly at her sudden change of heart but realized he didn't really care. The idea of having this woman in his house was making it hard to breathe. Hard to think.
Kelly Bowen
#100. Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening" ... The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored ... The functional use of dialogue for the plot must be the first thing in the writer's mind. Where functional usefulness cannot be established, dialogue must be left out.
Elizabeth Bowen
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