Impassibleness Quotes

#1. There was a change in Boldwood's exterior from its former impassibleness; and his face showed that he was now living outside his defences for the first time, and with a fearful sense of exposure. It is the usual experience of strong natures when they love.

Thomas Hardy

#2. You're human. It's one of the things humans do. Lies just spring out, even unbidden and unintended.

C.J. Brightley

#3. Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.

Steve Breen

#4. Some of Bay's fondest memories were of lying under the apple tree in the summer while Claire gardened and the apple tree tossed apples at her like a dog trying to coax its owner into playing catch.

Sarah Addison Allen

#5. When you empty out the vessel, you also empty out all the crap floating around in there. The additives. The impurities. It sure feels good. It's a whole body, whole-minded enema.

Stephen King

#6. Meditation ... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

Tom Robbins

#7. Banana Splits for Breakfast. I think I ate about five.

Sissy Spacek

#8. I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own frailties and human desire for prestige and position tell me my term limits pledge did make a difference in how I approached my job in Congress.

Tom Coburn

#9. Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide ... If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men.

Warren Farrell

#10. There's a word for an author who doesn't give up ... published.

J.A. Konrath

#11. In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

Annie Proulx

#12. I've always had a vivid imagination in terms of storytelling, but thankfully I learned early on that imagination can be stifled or enhanced by one's writing ability - what I call word work. My goal from then on was to make sure my writing skills were up to speed with my imagination.

Marvin Brown

#13. You have to wake up and say, 'I have a fire in me to be better than I am right now.' That's your base.

Greg Jackson

#14. Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.

Mitt Romney