Dustjackets Quotes

#1. In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity. That seemed to be the nature of the beast. The biographical notes on the dustjackets of the novels were terrific.

Tom Wolfe

#2. grew increasingly impatient and angry as I compared their selflessness and sacrifice with the self-promotion and selfishness of power-hungry politicians and others - in Baghdad, Kabul, and Washington.

Robert M. Gates

#3. Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.

Fran Lebowitz

#4. You're actually inside the surfboard ... you're inside the landscape around you and the ocean is surging, you get totally inside the moment and it's so intense that time disappears, you disappear ...

Nick Carroll

#5. You look at any war zone and you talk to any soldiers and they have to blank out - in order for that to work for them, in order for them to survive they have to blank out something in themselves in order to do it.

David Morrissey

#6. It's not so much about moving on, is it?" he said. "It's more about letting go. There lies the challenge.

Katie Kacvinsky

#7. Kat, I won't let him. Okay? I promise you. I won't let anything happen to you.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#8. That was the thing about Loki. You resented him even when you were at your most grateful, and you were grateful to him even when you hated him the most.

Neil Gaiman

#9. We ought never have been given the ability to love.

Cassandra Clare

#10. I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

Zane Grey

#11. I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.

H.L. Mencken

#12. I am aware that I preach a religious doctrine understood and accepted by a very small part of the religious world, when I point out the relation of the religious concept to physical fitness.

Stephen L. Richards

#13. I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn't want to be an academic.

Betty Friedan