Dorothea Lasky Quotes

#1. Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck,
And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.

Daniel Dumile

#2. The first time the temptation comes, meet it in such a decided manner that it will never be repeated!

Ellen G. White

#3. She was running out of the room as fast as she could, with the sword raised before her. She called back to her father. I'll be back soon. I've just got to save the world.

Karen Foxlee

#4. Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notley, of Bernadette Mayer, of Eileen Myles, and Sylvia Plath

Dorothea Lasky

#5. What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

Claude Monet

#6. It is the irrational That is worth living for

Dorothea Lasky

#7. Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home.

Dorothea Lasky

#8. I think I'd better do the actual stealing," Hermione continued in a matter-of-fact tone. "You two will be expelled if you get into anymore trouble, and I've got a clean record. So all of you need to do is cause enough mayhem to keep Snape busy for five minutes or so.

J.K. Rowling

#9. He would have been far more attractive to her if she could have trusted him. You could not love a man who was always playing hide-and-seek with you; that was the lesson she had learned.

Mary McCarthy

#10. Let go of everything else, he urges in my mind. Just be here. With me.

Cynthia Hand

#11. I reached deep in you and pulled out a cardinal which in bright red flew out the window.

Dorothea Lasky

#12. That's my fault, of course, because I behaved stupidly, like a child, because I didn't like feeling rejected. I need to learn to lose a little better.

Paula Hawkins

#13. You have to risk failure to become excellent.

Sarah Winman

#14. Day by day, I'm kind of a bore.

Mary Roach

#15. In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#16. Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

Charles Caleb Colton