Charrie Pineda Quotes

#1. Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

Rose Wilder Lane

#2. In 1976, divorce could still raise eyebrows, as could a woman's decision not to have children. Dyslexia wasn't as commonly recognized then, and thus not treated as it is today.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#3. Interrupted again! if it's not Jules it's the cat! that's the female speciality: interruptions!

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#4. The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the cold void between the stars speaks its language. To that savage self, evil can look lovely in too little light.

Dean Koontz

#5. In short, the remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know. In

Bill Bryson

#6. O: Are you asleep, mi amor?
C: [no response]
O: There is a spider on your face.
C: [no response]
O: That's a little trick, Juan-George, to make sure someone's really asleep. There's no spider.

Antoine Wilson

#7. THE MISCONCEPTION: When you can't explain something, you focus on what you can prove. THE TRUTH: When you are unsure of something, you are more likely to accept strange explanations.

David McRaney

#8. Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.

Martin Amis

#9. There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.

Alphonsus Liguori

#10. Vodka goes well with a wintery perspective. Nothing else provokes such presentiments of falling snow except, for some, the communist seizure of the state.

Michele Bernstein

#11. Love is ridiculous and reconfigures everything.

Ann Voskamp

#12. The post-traumatic shock from living in Florida never goes away, yet part of me is forever attached to that eccentric, heat-infested swamp.

Jennifer Harrison

#13. A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.

Charles Lamb

#14. The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

David Bowie

#15. He is a sort of steady man in a wild way, you know. That's better than to be as some are, wild in a steady way. I am afraid that's how I am.

Thomas Hardy