Brooding Chickens Quotes

#1. He feels it, too. His eyes widen. A lovely hazel. Green with flecks of brown and gold. The colors I love. The colors of the earth.

Sophie Jordan

#2. Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

Paul Bowles

#3. To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

Denis Diderot

#4. Practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#5. I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

David Liss

#6. You're so goddamn beautiful."
Her eyes open, and she looks down at me, leaning closer, her voice shaky as she says, "It's been so long since somebody said that and I actually felt it.

J.M. Darhower

#7. A clean conscience is expensive, it's the reason most men have to live paycheck to paycheck.

David Wong

#8. I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level.

Steve McQueen

#9. Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

Maurice Sendak

#10. Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

Linda Ronstadt

#11. Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

James Boswell