Identifying Who Said Quotes

#1. Identifying, they said, was trying to see how I was like the people I was with. Comparing, they told me, was looking for differences, usually seeing how I was better than others.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#2. In walking, he unleashed the past that he had spent twenty years seeking to avoid, and now it chattered and played through his head with a wild energy that was its own.

Rachel Joyce

#3. Lilith opened the shutters and allowed herself to bathe in the bright moonlight, as it shone across the Highland Glen.

Alan Kinross

#4. Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach.

Marsha Blackburn

#5. A writer once said to me, If you ever go to America, go either to the East Coast or the West Coast: The rest is a desert full of bigots. That's what I think I'd like ... a version of pastoral.

Philip Larkin

#6. When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

Oscar Wilde

#7. Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.

Suzanne Finnamore

#8. We had a bad summer here, my friend. Local folks keep it as quiet as they can - even the newspaper doesn't play it up - but there was some nasty work. Murders. Half a dozen at least. Kids. Found one down in the Barrens just recently. Patrick Hockstetter, his name was. All decayed.

Stephen King

#9. You belong," he told her. "You belong just as much as I do, or, who, or Bitsy or ... It's just like Christmas. We all think the others belong more.

Anne Tyler

#10. She'd hidden from the truth of how bad it was because it had seemed so much more painful to deal with the truth.

Bella Andre

#11. People forget that public people and celebrities, they too have to go to the bathroom and get divorced.

John Densmore

#12. My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.

Kenneth Langone

#13. Arete is simply excellence and the striving for excellence in all things," said Odysseus. "Arete simply means the act of offering all actions as a sort of sacrament to excellence, of devoting one's life to finding excellence, identifying it when it offers itself, and achieving it in your own life.

Dan Simmons

#14. Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,
Atoms or systems into ruin hurled,
And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

Alexander Pope