Incapacitating Efforts Quotes

#1. I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.

Zoe Heller

#2. She paused before the fallen rider. He stared up at her from within a grimacing, battle stained face. Hatred and fear battled for supremacy in his eyes. Sasha met his gaze directly with a stare of utter contempt.
'Where are your gods now?' she said.

Joel Shepherd

#3. It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.

Louise Doughty

#4. Were writing Freakonomics, we had grave doubts that anyone would actually read it - and we certainly never envisioned the need for this revised and expanded edition.

Steven D. Levitt

#5. He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases to grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#6. Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

Henri Nouwen

#7. I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

Ben Kingsley

#8. I used to go to Cold Stone Creamery, get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

Vanessa Hudgens

#9. Oh, well, you go to poor school." He gives a comic eye roll. "At rich school, we take notes on hundred-dollar bills using unicorn tears, and our grief is vastly different and more complex.

Delilah S. Dawson

#10. He was made uneasy by unbraked hilarity and by extremes of sorrow alike, especially the latter; he preferred life to sail along pleasantly and evenly, and this, he knew, was for him a minor sort of tragedy.

William Styron

#11. We must conserve our strengths for the battles we can win.

David Henry Hwang

#12. If your life works, and you work in it, then it's okay, whatever is happening is okay.

Laurell K. Hamilton