Donald Antrim Quotes

#1. Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare gift: something truly new. Notable American Women contains strains of Donald Antrim and Samuel Beckett but is beholden to neither; it is a brave, original book.

Myla Goldberg

#2. Success is having a career that you love with every fiber in your body.

Jack White

#3. People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you're covered and there's not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#4. The problems in describing a person are essentially problems of knowing a person.

Donald Antrim

#5. This place smells like sulfur and crime,

K.B. Wagers

#6. One of the sad features of most close relationships is the decay of intimacy as a function of time, turmoil, and all the little misunderstandings that inevitably occur between people, leading them, year in and year out, toward the same tired conclusions: conversation falters; friendships fail.

Donald Antrim

#7. ...my insides were ulcerous from coffee and terror.

Donald Antrim

#8. WE know no time when we were not as now..

John Milton

#9. At the age of six, the criteria for handsome was simply: "Is he not related to me?" and "Have I seen him on television?" That was it. By this standard, Larry Bird, Dick Clark, and Andy Rooney. All handsome guys.

Mindy Kaling

#10. But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.

Donald Antrim

#11. It is true that there is nothing like a blaze in the hearth to soothe the nerves and restore order to a house.

Donald Antrim

#12. The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?

Donald Antrim

#13. One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.

William Wordsworth

#14. Let him hurl these pieces of toast like new and radical ideas that must be cast into the world. Pieces of toast like angry children who will hit us and upset us and change our ways of thinking and feeling.

Donald Antrim

#15. Have you ever noticed?
people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.

Donald Antrim

#16. Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.

Donald Antrim

#17. There is such a thing as the courage in remaining baffled.

Donald Antrim

#18. Hawk looked at Tony without speaking. He had three gunshot wounds and still could barely stand, but

Robert B. Parker

#19. Human beings in stressful relationships will frequently behave in ways that contradict or even reverse their own most certain expectations.

Donald Antrim

#20. There is nothing more seductive - and dangerous - than being listened to.

Donald Antrim

#21. I find that break-ups are so much easier when you can hate the person.

Lizzy Caplan