Daiches Library Quotes

#1. I'm not a show-off; I'm not an exhibitionist.

Kelly Reilly

#2. There are such things as delusions, but not every unlikely vision that the mentally ill have is imaginary.

Shepherd Hoodwin

#3. People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same.

Karin Slaughter

#4. I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

George Steinbrenner

#5. There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the 'material' environment of the rocks and the atmosphere to the living cells.

James Lovelock

#6. Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. 'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cataclysmic event ... it's going to inform the richness that you sing from ... The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.

Bonnie Raitt

#8. Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.

Donald Glover

#9. Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!

Joyce Meyer

#10. The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

William James

#11. We all know that there are many people that can play the instrument perfectly today, up and down with technical perfection, but does the sound connect internally, do they touch people's hearts, how creative are they ... ?

David Finckel

#12. If I know from the start that I'm going to be alone, I'm not lonely. It doesn't bother me.

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

#13. Ask a victim to look at the positive things and she'll say, 'I can't. My eyes are swollen,

Jon Ronson