Carpenters Song Quotes

#1. Casual affairs never interested him. Every girl he met was gauged as a potential life partner, a soul mate, an undying love, as though every relationship should be a Carpenters song.

Harlan Coben

#2. Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.

Sharon Olds

#3. Well, how do you usually meet women?" "They have a way of suddenly appearing. Like the birds in that song." She had to think about that for a minute. "You mean 'Close to You' by the Carpenters?

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#4. But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it.

Marilynne Robinson

#5. I typically spend a year thinking about a book before I begin writing it.

Benjamin Percy

#6. Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition & observation are sources of knowledge.

Rudolf Steiner

#7. the first principle of all action is leisure.

Aristotle.

#8. Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

Cassandra Clare

#9. The scariest thing in it may be the way the clock radio has a way of turning itself on, loudly, of its own accord. The song is always the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun." Now that's horror.

Stephanie Zacharek