Caroming Quotes

#1. The Beltway media went into caroming-off-the-walls hysterics over Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, whipping itself into a flaming casserole even as Clinton's standing with the American people remained upright and firm, so to speak.

James Wolcott

#2. The words 'when I take you home' echoed in the captain's mind, caroming off that private place where all his suspicions and uncertainties slept.

Michelle Franklin

#3. I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.

Veronica Roth

#4. She felt the way she always did when she was traveling, as though she was enjoying the novelty but would be happiest when she could consider it all from the vantage point of home, with her suitcase unpacked ...

Anna Quindlen

#5. SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME WE WILL NEVER FEEL loved until we drop the act, until we're willing to show our true selves to the people around us.

Donald Miller

#6. He was moving more than his life. He was moving his heart. Putting it closer than down the road from me. He was putting it right in my hands. Right where I'd wanted it since the first day I met him.

Katie Kacvinsky

#7. When NASA started sending up astronauts, they discovered that ballpoint pens don't work in zero gravity. So they spent twelve million dollars and more than a decade developing a pen that writes under any condition, on almost every surface. The Russians used a pencil.

Garrison Keillor

#8. Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable.

Thomas Sprat

#9. I always felt like I was challenged, I was never satisfied, and I looked forward to the challenge. From studying high school players to studying kids in college, I always studied the competition, at my position in particular, to make sure I set the standard.

Derrick Brooks

#10. Being amongst rough lives and confusion does not make you less, it only makes your beauty shine out more clearly.

Sharon Sant

#11. I was raised Catholic.

Tom Shadyac

#12. At the end of my life I want to say, "I lived every moment of it.

Debasish Mridha

#13. keeping options open seems to extract a psychological price. When we can change our minds, apparently we do less psychological work to justify the decision we've made, reinforcing the chosen alternative and disparaging the rejected ones.

Barry Schwartz

#14. Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier. You have the option, why not exercise it?

Robin Sharma

#15. A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.

Epictetus