I Love Midwestern Guys Quotes

#1. In my case, if I start out by thinking about the plot, things don't go well. Small points, such as my impression of what is likely to occur, do come to mind, but I let the rest of the story take its own course. I don't want to spend as long as two years writing a story whose plot I already know.

Haruki Murakami

#2. Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.

Marianne Williamson

#3. It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.

Charles Baxter

#5. I don't want to run your life, I don't know how to run your life, I don't have the authority to run your life, and the Constitution doesn't permit me to run your life.

Ron Paul

#6. Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

Francois Truffaut

#7. Eliza, stop crying, You let sorrow take over you; you will drown in it

Solomon Northup

#8. The song 'Wolf Eyes,' I wrote because I felt like I was such a kitten. I want to be more of a wolf. I want to be stronger and more independent. I sort of wrote the song for that.

Sydney Wayser

#9. I squeeze my eyes shut tighter, trying to imagine another world again. A world where we're happy, where we're together, where we're away from all of this.
A world without a target on our backs.
A world where Naz comes home.
A world where we can live in peace.
A world that's just ours.

J.M. Darhower

#10. [Nutrition] is a huge piece of the puzzle. It's not just about working hard and being physical. It's about being smart and mindful of what's going in and out of our bodies.

Kerri Walsh

#11. My biggest concern about the market is the force that acts to drive down price, because I think that's destructive to authors as well as publishers. Our biggest battle is to underline the value of intellectual property.

Jonathan Galassi

#12. Man is too quick at forming conclusions.

Edward E. Barnard

#13. You speak of yourself and others who were in your same position as objects."
Boyd's eyebrows ticked up. "Isn't that what I am? I was merchandise there but now I'm back to being a tool. It's nothing but semantics.

Santino Hassell

#14. In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

Norman Mailer

#15. Friendship is not about ships - no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is.

Richelle E. Goodrich