Grippingly Quotes

#1. Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

Clive James

#2. I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.

Erich Maria Remarque

#3. That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

Anne Rice

#4. In the long run, our most deeply held desires will govern our choices, one by one and day by day, until our lives finally add up to what we have really wanted most
for good or otherwise. We can indeed have eternal life, if we really want it, so long as we don't want something else more.

Bruce C. Hafen

#5. I didn't find my story; it found me, as autobiography always does: finds you out in your deepest most private places.

Kelly Cherry

#6. I like meat on my bones.

Jennifer Hudson

#7. You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.

Elizabeth Cadell

#8. I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.

Dan Millman

#9. People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.

Charles Garfield

#10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

George Carlin

#11. He loved but he did not know how to be loved.

Connie Brockway

#12. To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it

Emanuel Swedenborg

#13. A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

Annie Leibovitz

#14. Hope doesn't exist."
"It does. It comes to us in all sorts of forms. You just have to keep your eyes open to it.

Adrienne Woods

#15. Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

Orson Welles

#16. It's strange, because I remember the biggest point of my childhood was one Halloween when I was trick or treating and ended up at Henry Winkler's house and he answered the door. So I got to meet The Fonz. That was cool.

Brian Austin Green