Hearthside Quotes

#1. It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.

Jack Kerouac

#2. When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#3. Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Wallace Stegner

#4. I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.

Prince

#5. I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type 100 words per minute on the word processor. But, of course, I don't keep that up indefinitely - every once in a while I do have to think a few seconds.

Isaac Asimov

#7. Love, I've never been anyone's mother; I don't know how to talk to young or old. But don't stop smiling just because I flap my mouth and say something that's not dressed around the edges like a lace tablecloth. Thicken up and we'll get along fine.

Catherynne M Valente

#8. There are 100,000 artists on Pandora & 70% are indies; artists making $100K - $2 million.

Tim Westergren

#9. You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Saul Bellow

#10. Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through.

Dave Chappelle

#11. For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a fabulous arrangement of surmises and guesses held up as a banner against the assault of withering truth. History

Sebastian Barry

#12. You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

John Krasinski

#13. I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them.

Edith Wharton

#14. I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.

Grace Gummer

#15. I sometimes wonder why I do so much research - I look at other successful writers, and I think it must just be so relaxing to write about flying horses or something, but I have to make it plausible.

Michelle Paver

#16. The best way to win is to not need to.

Wayne Dyer

#17. As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

Todd Solondz