Downtown 81 Quotes

#1. I feel like a jug in which wine is poured until it overflows.

Henri Cole

#2. Memorial Day weekend is the time we drink up all the booze and eat up all the grub that the soldiers didn't get to. It's important.

Karl Welzein

#3. Your father is a complete! I don't know what she called him, but I have a feeling that's when the first cuss were invented.

Rick Riordan

#4. I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.

Dean Ornish

#5. Her mother was clearly worried. She had started speaking to Sophie in a different tone since this business with the white rabbit and the top hat. Sophie hated to be a worry to her mother, but she just had to go upstairs and keep an eye on the mail box.

Jostein Gaarder

#6. The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.

Iris Murdoch

#7. She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we'd had chicken tonight.

Margaret Stohl

#8. I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

Steve Toltz

#9. I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

Rafael Nadal