Derrieres Club Quotes

#1. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Jacob Bronowski

#2. I get it. I understand. I'm just kind of reconfiguring my hard drive now," she says, tapping her skull. "And finding room for this new data point about you.

Lauren Blakely

#3. I danced frightening things. They were frightened of me and therefore thought that I wanted to kill them. I did not want to kill anyone. I loved everyone, but no one loved me, and therefore I became nervous.

Vaslav Nijinsky

#4. This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.

Willa Cather

#5. I didn't want to be a victim, some princess locked away in a tower, waiting to be saved. I wanted to be the hero of my story; I didn't need to be saved. At least I didn't want to be.

John Goode

#6. Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's smart.

Don Bluth

#7. You will have to step out into the unknown, listening for direction as you go.

Jeff Goins

#8. Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial ... a good writer needs a sense of the history of literature to be successful as a writer.

James Kisner

#9. I am as I am, and that's all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person ...

Franz Kafka

#10. An accident of birth had signed her death warrant.
He could mark her name off his to-do list.

Linda Howard

#11. Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have - right now.

Richard Rohr

#12. Smartass Disciple: Why do arrogant people like to say complex words ?
Master of Stupidity: Ask them straight! You'll get a simple scary version.

Toba Beta

#13. You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

Rand Paul

#14. To recount these histories is like unravelling a thread: one means only to tell one little part, but then another comes in, and another, for they are all part of the same garment - Tudor, Lancaster, York, Plantagenet.

Margaret George