Dontrelle Williams Quotes

#1. I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in. My job is not so much to impart a philosophy but to train people in the methods of self-discovery.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Do I pray for her life or mine? They're one in the same ... Be this soul in Thine hands ... I stop, unable to pray for her ascension. I cannot let her go, I think in agony. I try again, May this soul in Thine hands be with me ... always.

Amy A. Bartol

#3. Apparently they died from overfeeding. Apparently I overfed them. Apparently fish are terrible glutons with absolutely no self-control who just don't know when they've had enough and will stuff themselves to death with those innocuous little beige flakes imaginatively labeled 'fish food.

Steve Toltz

#4. Hey Internet. Look at the books I read. I sure do read a lot. Everyone should think I'm very intelligent and sophisticated. I'm glad there's a website I can constantly remind them with.

Daniel Meyer

#5. The modern concept of the unconscious, based on such studies and measurements, is often called the "new unconscious," to distinguish it from the idea of the unconscious that was popularized by a neurologist-turned-clinician named Sigmund Freud.

Leonard Mlodinow

#6. It's not the words but the music that counts.

Benjamin Spock

#7. Shields!' shouted Sita.

Amish Tripathi

#8. Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Helen Keller

#9. I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.

Ann Beattie

#10. I always thought everyone was against war until I found out there are those who are all for it, especially those who do not have to go there.

Erich Maria Remarque

#11. Although in my life the level of loss has never reached the extremes it does in 'The Winter People,' I certainly can identify with being both a daughter longing for her mother and being a mother who is almost scared by the intensity of her love for her daughter.

Jennifer McMahon

#12. The holiness of solitude is the gift of creativity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. I'm afraid your literary prizes don't give you any jurisdiction in this particular instance, sir.

Lizzie K. Foley