James O Donnell Quotes

#1. Not a cute little whimper. Not a plaintive little wail. A full-throated, piercing "This Woman Has Kidnapped Me, Call the Cops" scream.

Sophie Kinsella

#2. To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

Stephen Ambrose

#3. Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations.

James O'Donnell Bennett

#4. I fall in and out and back in love with that answer.

Colleen Hoover

#5. Change is the law. Stability and consistency are illusions, temporary in any case, a heroic achievement of human will and persistence at best. When we want things to stay the same, we'll always wind up playing catch-up.

John Brockman

#6. The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons
it was systemic and it was complete.

Gary Shteyngart

#7. One hot summer night in San Francisco, roughly 10 years ago, I was sitting in a crowded Pacific Heights restaurant when Alice Adams walked in with a man. She was about 60 at the time, and she was wearing a skirt that fell an inch or so above her knees and flat heels without stockings.

Mary Gaitskill

#8. History is never something carved in stone, but more like something saved to a temporary cache file on a computer disk vulnerable to the imperfections of memory and always ready to be revised.
The Confessions are Augustine's own first draft of history.

James O'Donnell

#9. I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.

Penn Jillette

#10. A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

Voltaire

#11. Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late.

James Alexander Thom