Elissa Schappell Quotes

#1. Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

Elissa Schappell

#2. It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

Henry Ward Beecher

#3. Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.

Tom Robbins

#4. An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.

Henry Ward Beecher

#5. In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.

Elissa Schappell

#6. An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#7. The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.

Elissa Schappell

#8. You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it.

Elissa Schappell

#9. Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.

Elissa Schappell

#10. Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

Robert M. Pirsig

#11. Because I know that my character is developed from my own acts and thoughts, I will guard with care all that goes into its development.

Napoleon Hill

#12. Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram for the King is fiction ... it's a strike against the current state of global economic injustice.

Elissa Schappell

#13. We're forced into absurd lives, against which the only sane response is to wage a guerrilla operation of humour and lust and madness.

Charles Bukowski

#14. If I wasn't serving in Congress, I've always wanted to be a high school teacher. Specifically, I want to teach a course on modern American history and use Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury as a primary text.

Brad Schneider

#15. A single girl who needs nobody makes people uncomfortable, and my mom is right in this, appearance is everything, and appearing to have no one is like swimming alone in the middle of the ocean with a flesh wound.

Elissa Schappell

#16. We see people voting for bills that their ideals and principles are opposed to, but because their little funding project is in there, they're voting for it. We might say it's one percent of all spending but the impact of that spending is far greater.

Sean Duffy

#17. Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

Elissa Schappell

#18. While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.

Elissa Schappell

#19. You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms.

Tariq Ramadan

#20. By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.

Elissa Schappell

#21. Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

James Wolcott

#22. I focus best and am most productive when I'm working in a friend's empty apartment. It's hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.

Elissa Schappell