Excavating Near Quotes

#1. If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.

Patrick Ness

#2. I would love to be in 'The Hunger Games.' I'm one of the few people who haven't read the books, because unfortunately, I'm not a big book reader. I do read a lot of scripts and I read the script and I loved it. So, yeah, I'd love to be in 'The Hunger Games.'

Cassi Thomson

#3. I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#4. She picked up a handheld grenade launcher, cradling it like a baby.

Kimberly Derting

#5. If you give people happiness, then the happiness you experience will never end, but will be filling you incessantly

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

Viktor E. Frankl

#7. The bed was no longer a daisy-field for her and Joe to play in. It was a place where she went and laid down when she was sleepy and tired.

Zora Neale Hurston

#8. If you look at anything, there are always comedic moments.

Bradley Cooper

#9. Lonely people read a great deal, but say little and hear little.

Anton Chekhov

#10. Who hasn't got the seeds of evil in him?

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#11. Every part contained a memory of the other parts it was directly attached to.

Stanislaw Lem

#12. I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#13. Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

Joel Osteen

#14. Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.

Thomas Traherne