Frantic Days Quotes

#1. Our frantic days are really just a hedge against emptiness.

Tim Kreider

#2. There are a lot of actresses out there who are the girl next door. I relate more to characters who have an edge.

Eliza Dushku

#3. But the mind, or the heart, she didn't know which one it was, but it was slower these days, not catching up, and she felt like a big, fat field mouse scrambling to get up on a ball that was right in front of her turning faster and faster, and she couldn't get her scratchy frantic limbs up onto it.

Elizabeth Strout

#4. Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.

Charles Frazier

#5. Hope is a possibility.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?

Helene Hanff

#7. Study of Shakespeare helped her to read character, or

Louisa May Alcott

#8. When you're young, you want to live fast, but you definitely don't want to die young. At the same time, you want to do things in slow, progressive manner that will benefit you in the future. Don't jump into things.

Harbhajan Singh

#9. A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

Thomas Love Peacock

#10. These handkerchief gardens are a traditional German solution to apartment dwellers' yearning for a tool shed and a vegetable garden. They make a patchwork of green in odd corners of urban land, along train lines or canals or, as here, in the lee of the Wall.

Anna Funder

#11. No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health.

Napoleon Hill

#12. When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

Stephen Fry

#13. The twelve sides were said by the architect to represent the twelve great religions of the world. So far, no one had asked the architect to name them. That was lucky, because he couldn't have done it. There

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#14. Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.

John Lothrop Motley

#15. Man, you cannot be real," the human said softly.
"Why not?"
"You just can't."
She laughed a little. "Well, I am." He cleared his throat again. Offered her a lopsided grin.
"Mind if I ask you to prove it?"
"How?"
"Can I touch your hair?

J.R. Ward

#16. If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful.

Gautama Buddha