Drabber Quotes

#1. Standing behind him until he turned his head. Lying next to him just before he woke up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough. Eleanor ruining everything. Eleanor, gone

Rainbow Rowell

#2. At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling'.

Alan Bennett

#3. I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot be totally greedy. You have to oblige yourself not to learn everything. Or else you will learn nothing.

Umberto Eco

#4. My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.

Sarah Dessen

#5. The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty.
Leto II

Frank Herbert

#6. Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27.

Solange Knowles

#7. When we look at things differently, things look different.

Toni Sorenson

#8. The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.

Cheryl Strayed

#9. I think I understand life. I think I understand how to live. I'm enjoying my life. I don't really live in an as extravagant way as people think.

Donald Trump

#10. In rural Spain, at least, it is far better to arrive than to travel, however hopefully.

Honor Tracy