Irri Tool Quotes

#1. The man was great, but no man was great enough to sever a friendship between her and one of her girls. Chicks before dicks, and all that.

Katee Robert

#2. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush.

Arshile Gorky

#3. Sometimes it's the memories we should have had that are most painful.

Valynne E. Maetani

#4. The Jews were continually warned not to look for the reason for their adoption elsewhere than in God's free favor. He had seen fit to choose them; this alone was the source of their security.

John Calvin

#5. Did you know that writing stories down kills them?
Of course it does, words aren't meant to be stiff, unchanging things.

N.K. Jemisin

#6. He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.

Salman Rushdie

#7. As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.

David Maraniss

#8. I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.

Talib Kweli

#9. You want to talk about big things, but it's the catches on the garden sheds and the London Zoo cards that give you the footholds; without them you wouldn't know where to start.

Nick Hornby

#10. What in the blue star-blazes did you see in Jason?" he asked, still forcefully but with his frustration and jealousy under better control.
"For one thing, Djetth, he wasn't trying to kill me!"
("Marsh", heroine of Insufficient Mating Material)

Rowena Cherry

#11. I am so hip even my errors are correct

Nikki Giovanni

#12. If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.

Henry Rollins

#13. That's when the realization comes. It swims up out of her subconscious in the same way that a nightmare does. Or when you leave the house and remember half an hour later that you left a teakettle going on the stove. It's a cold clammy reality that she can't do a damn thing about.

Neal Stephenson

#14. And I wish to thank you as well, Royce."
He was puzzled. "For what?"
"For reminding me that anyone, no matter what they've done, can find redemption if they seek it.

Michael J. Sullivan