Envidiable Quotes

#1. When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.

Kelseyleigh Reber

#2. I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

Charlie Kaufman

#3. What the creeping crud is that?" [Percy] demanded. "You're inside a giant glowing chicken-man!"
"Hawk!" I yelled.
I decided that if I survived this day I would have to make sure this guy never met Sadie. They'd probably take turns insulting me for the rest of eternity.

Rick Riordan

#4. Nurse Rozetta, I won't let her catch me peering down her sweeter.

Alice Cooper

#5. The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#6. When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live.

William O. Douglas

#7. I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said.

Thuli Madonsela

#8. But today--today I will just be.

Francisco X Stork

#9. Agatha Christie called her books 'yarns'. A good yarn is very readable.

Barbara Bothwell

#10. My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.

Dennis C. Blair

#11. Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds made up a single universe, and the universe waited there in the book to be discovered by the reader.

Haruki Murakami

#12. I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

Paul Desmond