Don't Use Me Quotes

#1. When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a toddler.
What I wanted to say to you, but didn't, was this: Don't use me as your model. I'm the last person you should look up to.

Jodi Picoult

#2. One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.

Steven Brust

#3. Do you guys have sunscreen?" I ask.
"No," Scottie says. "Do we have water?"
"Did you bring any?" Alex asks.
"No," I say.
Alex pops her head up. "Did you bring snacks for us?"
"We can walk to town."
How do mothers manage to bring everything a child could need?

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#4. Growing up, my mom was a painter, my best friend was a painter, my husband is a painter. For a long time I knew artists, and I didn't know any writers.

Holly Black

#5. Don't wake up," he whispered as he felt her shudder against him once more. "Dream with me, Belle. Sweet Belle, just dream with me."
-from Travis/Black Jack

Lora Leigh

#6. The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#7. Our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

Barbara Kingsolver

#8. When I started as an actor, I kind of started with a couple features. I've been waiting for the opening.

Max Martini

#9. I've done so many superhero comics, and I've actually just been really excited about sci-fi, and Chrononauts and Starlight were both sci-fi, which I had a great time doing.

Mark Millar

#10. I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.

Augustin Matata Ponyo

#11. Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!

Lyle Lovett

#12. There's a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can't meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.

Tyler Perry

#13. That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.

Philibert Joseph Roux