Excerpts From The Outsiders Quotes

#1. The imperfect book that gets published is better than the perfect book that never leaves my computer.

Gretchen Rubin

#2. What was that? Rich combined the pain of a crooked arm with the indignity of a flicked ear. I could only hope the situation didn't escalate to the dreaded purple nurple.

Molly Harper

#3. What a lovely ride that was. I haven't been on a train in an eternity. Something wonderfully soothing about traveling that way.

Aidan Donnelley Rowley

#4. A QUESTION OF VISION. From the sun's seat, after all, humanity is an abstraction.

Lauren Groff

#5. I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war and it would never be the same.

Winston Churchill

#6. When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.

Patti Smith

#7. It's not that girls are delusional, per se. It's just that they have this subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something different.

Rebecca Serle

#8. There are four kinds of people to avoid in the world: the assholes, the asswipes, the ass-kissers, and those that just will shit all over you.

Anthony Liccione

#9. You can't replay time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Charles Colson

#11. An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

Reid Hoffman

#12. It was wild and dark and grand and tall and fierce and haunting all at once. And it thrilled me to the core. It thrilled me and it frightened me, for it whipped at my carefully closeted heart, much as the wind had whipped at my hair and skirts and sent my bonnet tumbling.

Julianne Donaldson