Decemberish Quotes

#1. A book floated down the Amper River.
A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held
it in his right hand. He grinned. He stood
waist-deep in the icy, Decemberish water.
"How about a kiss, Saumensch?" he said.

Markus Zusak

#2. I just watched the entire season of 'Louie' in one flight. What an amazing show.

Jason O'Mara

#3. Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.

Alice Hoffman

#4. All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.

Veronica Roth

#5. When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.

Alix Kates Shulman

#6. My life is either/or. Either I chew regular gum or I chew sugarless gum. Either I chew gum or I smoke. Either I smoke or I gain weight. Either I gain weight or I run up the stadium steps.'
'Sounds like a boring life.'
'I hope it lasts forever.

Don DeLillo

#7. Learning from other people is what music is all about.

Neil Young

#8. We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.

Eric Hoffer

#9. Instead of asking, "what do I want from life?," a more powerful question is, "what does life want from me?

Eckhart Tolle

#10. It was on a van ride home from the movie set that everything came together. I realized I had to get off Twitter. It just struck me that I couldn't stop everyone else from doing it, but I could certainly stop myself.

Nick Offerman

#11. You will be perpetually unhappy if you continue to refuse to walk in your calling.

Brandi L. Bates

#12. He wanted me more than he'd ever wanted anything in his life, but something was holding him back. Something that frightened him.

Denise Grover Swank

#13. It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.

Donald Byrd

#14. After going through years of litigation to get royalties due to him, the guy who coined the term 'happily ever after' lived reasonably well for a while.

Demetri Martin