Freedon Nadd Quotes

#1. Two boys, both in varsity football, kissing under the bleachers, muscular silhouettes merging against the deep purple sky. I wasn't the only one with a secret. In the grand scheme of things, my secret wasn't even as dangerous as some of theirs.

Leah Raeder

#2. Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

Edward Gibbon

#3. Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

Frederick Buechner

#4. America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. Dallas Mavericks want me as a bald-headed 5' 8" guard with a 95" vertical.
Vince Carter respect my legs, ask Shawn Kemp.

Kool Keith

#6. Why should Dickie want to come back to subways and taxis and starched collars and a nine-to- five job? Or even a chauffeured car and vacations in Florida and Maine? It wasn't as much fun as sailing a boat in old clothes and being answerable to nobody for the way

Patricia Highsmith

#7. Imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic.

Ted Hughes

#8. The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.

Swami Vivekananda

#9. I don't have to stop you. All I have to do is slow you down.
-Ganner Rhysode

Matthew Woodring Stover

#10. Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.

Italo Calvino

#11. What about the Americans?" "Eerie people. Genetically engineered to play squash and work weekends.

Don DeLillo